You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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.
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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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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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It is actually important to do songs they’re familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I’ve changed people’s perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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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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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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It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
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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 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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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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