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Scottish - Actor Born: January 27, 1965

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

You Want Your Genuine

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.

Character Beginning Think Literature

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.

Work You Tired Long

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

People Secrets Chatting Just

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

Things Like Different Very

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.

People Think Know Wrong

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

Me Hate People Think

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

Challenge Like One-Man Greatest

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.

Fear People Lie Gay

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

You Doing Like Fast

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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.

Time Feel Think Hard

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

Things Rare Film Than

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

You People Sometimes Done

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Love Fly Two Through

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.

Good God You Team

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

You Feel Some Like

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

You Country Know Calendar

I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

You Long Think Like

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

You Grow Person Grow Up

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.

Knowledge You End Nobody

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.

You People Temple Cinema

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Positive Think Generation Africa

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.

You Bond Never See

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

First Hear Scottish Odd

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.

Good You Think Missing

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