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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It 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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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’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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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.
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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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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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I started to itch to do a play again and ‘Macbeth’ came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. 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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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