It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
ALAN CUMMINGThere are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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I 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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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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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.
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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people’s songs, you’re asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it’s a song they know very well.
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