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

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

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

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!

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

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

Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. 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 personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.