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  Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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  You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.

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  With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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  I’ve actually found – especially doing my cabaret show – I’m connecting with people in a way I haven’t connected with them. I’ve found that when you’re open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you’re being open and honest about.

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  It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.

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  There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.

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  So if I’m swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don’t want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I’m a vitamin!

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  Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.

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  Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

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  I don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

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  If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?

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  Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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  I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it’s interesting that there’s this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare.

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  It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

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  The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.

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  You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.

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