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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.

Alan Cumming

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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Choose Film People Really Sniffy Sometimes
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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Character Difficult Hard Just Make Real Really Something Usually Way Work
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
It just seems to me that it’s hypocritical for us as a culture to say, “Bullying is a terrible thing,” when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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Actual Connect Culture Hypocritical Reflect Seem So Society Terrible
I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Country Hear Odd State
In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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Call Drama First Kid Let School See Show Year
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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Ask Clas Definitely Second Stuff
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
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Backward Boy Explode Grown Life Little Live Out Up
Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don’t have an agenda. It’s more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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Agenda Come Genious Kid More Talk Up Want
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
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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Character Characteristic Everything Hamlet Happen Harcore Literature Lover Misunderstood Most Play Think
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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Aids Country Expert Free Generation Mother Positive Think Yera
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don’t think you’re very good at it – which is rubbish. You’re missing out here.
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Country Example Good Reluctant Rubbish Seen Take Think Writer
It is actually important to do songs they’re familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I’ve changed people’s perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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Actually Change Familiar Important Perception Snow Song Way
It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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Director Film Interest Other Rare Really Themselves Thing
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

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