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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

Alan Cumming

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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Arm Battle Blood Come Form Fresh Interest People Sweet
I wouldn’t do my roles if I really hated it. I’ve done things I hated, but I didn’t go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don’t want to go to work and not enjoy it.
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Done Fun Hate Really Role Thing Want
I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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Always Anyone Avoid Hate People Some
I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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Always Earth Lesbian Life Little Gay Open
It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
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Actual Commitment Ethos Good Mostly Okay Openness Quite Truth Unknown
Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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Challenge Daunt Good Once Real While Yourself
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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Afraid Again Back Go Hamlet Know Power Scare Theatre
My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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Do End Experience Feel Product Work
Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Anything Eyes Know Most Own People Two
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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Compulsive Feel Multitask Person
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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Actor Aesthetic Director Gone Mostly Sensible Stupid
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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Actor Closet Horrify People
I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Different Disguise Involve Thing Work
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Book Ever First Macbeth Play Raed
In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it’s much more prevalent in America.
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Back Class Country Foot More Prevalent Snobby Sort Term Think
It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.
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Actor Actually Country Good Intimidate Though

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