Quotes By Alan Cumming

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

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

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.

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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.

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

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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