Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
ALAN CUMMINGActors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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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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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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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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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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You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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Working with good people is always good.
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