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

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 good.

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.

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

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

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.

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