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.
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.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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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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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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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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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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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 don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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 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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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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