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.
ALAN CUMMINGI don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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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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 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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Kids 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.
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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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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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It’s interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That’s what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I’m slightly setting up the audience that there’s a bit of fun involved, as well.
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Working with good people is always good.
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You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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