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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.

Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.
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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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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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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Working with good people is always good.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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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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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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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
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