With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
ALAN CUMMINGPantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Working with good people is always good.
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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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I don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
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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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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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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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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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