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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.

Alan Cumming

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
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
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 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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Actor Country Intimidate More Much Think
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
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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Able Groundwork Peace Push Really Talk Think
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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Comedy Like More Tragedy Universal
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
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Working with good people is always good.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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Adult Grow Person Pretty Quickly Scare
If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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Equal Gay People See Society Wrong
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
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
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

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