Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMINGPerforming a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people’s songs, you’re asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it’s a song they know very well.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.
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Working with good people is always good.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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I’d been depressed before, of course. But I’m talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I’m talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog.
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