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.
ALAN CUMMINGOnce in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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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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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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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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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 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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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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