Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
ALAN CUMMINGThere are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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It’s interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That’s what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I’m slightly setting up the audience that there’s a bit of fun involved, as well.
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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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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.
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When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. 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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
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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!
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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