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?

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

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

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

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 other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

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.