With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
ALAN CUMMINGWith Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
ALAN CUMMINGYou should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
ALAN CUMMINGIt’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
ALAN CUMMINGMacbeth was the first play I ever read.
ALAN CUMMINGI don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
ALAN CUMMINGPerforming a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
ALAN CUMMINGYou’ll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
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.
ALAN CUMMINGWhen 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.
ALAN CUMMINGOften for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.
ALAN CUMMINGHe … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
ALAN CUMMINGI always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
ALAN CUMMINGSome 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.
ALAN CUMMINGKids 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.
ALAN CUMMINGIt is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMINGI have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I’ve been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn’t change anything. I’m happy with who I am!
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