I wouldn’t do my roles if I really hated it. I’ve done things I hated, but I didn’t go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don’t want to go to work and not enjoy it.
ALAN CUMMINGI’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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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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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.
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Working with good people is always good.
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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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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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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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