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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

Alan Cumming

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
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
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
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Cinema Film Home People Television Temple Theatre
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
Nowadays people don’t know how to handle it if all the ends aren’t tied up and they’re not told what to think in films. And if they’re challenged, they think it’s something wrong with the film.
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Challenge Feel Greatest Like Man One Perform
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
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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Exist Horrible Idea Important Message Person Work World
There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Bring Cuming Feel Same Day
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’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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Feel Ease Good Make Myself Quite Say Stranger
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’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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Biorhythms Before Course Depress Down Feel Just Really Sad Something Take
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
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
I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.
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Actor Actual Back Big Country Drama Fare Forth heavy Popcorn Slight Snobbery

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