Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMINGThere are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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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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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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.
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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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It is actually important to do songs they’re familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I’ve changed people’s perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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He … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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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.
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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.
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.
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I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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