I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMINGI had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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Working with good people is always good.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
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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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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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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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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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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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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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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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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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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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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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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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You’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.
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