I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
ALAN CUMMINGFinally, 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.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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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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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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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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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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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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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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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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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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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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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.
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?
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