I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMINGSometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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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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Working with good people is always good.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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Usually, there’s a story I’ve told that leads up to why I’m singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don’t think you’re very good at it – which is rubbish. You’re missing out here.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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