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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. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!

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

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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

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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; 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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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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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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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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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

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

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

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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 think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

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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 think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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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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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

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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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