A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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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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I’d been depressed before, of course. But I’m talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I’m talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog.
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It’s about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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You’ll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
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