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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

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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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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

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It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. 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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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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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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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.

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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. 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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I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

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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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