I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
ALAN CUMMINGI come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don’t have an agenda. It’s more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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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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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 had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
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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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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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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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Working with good people is always good.
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