A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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.

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.

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

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

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.