I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
ALAN CUMMINGIt is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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 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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Working with good people is always good.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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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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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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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In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it’s much more prevalent in America.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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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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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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It just seems to me that it’s hypocritical for us as a culture to say, “Bullying is a terrible thing,” when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Usually, there’s a story I’ve told that leads up to why I’m singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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