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

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 live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

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.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!