Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
ALAN CUMMINGI was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it’s interesting that there’s this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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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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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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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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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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