Scottish - Actor | January 27, 1965 -
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.
Alan Cumming
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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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 you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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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 not a fan of Twitter.
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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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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'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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