Be who you like as long as you mean it..

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 go….

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

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

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

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting..

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 othe….

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of p….

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 ….

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

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 l….

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

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. T….

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories..

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience..

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes..

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 ….

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay..

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 do….

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 differen….

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