I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
ALAN CUMMINGI’ve actually found – especially doing my cabaret show – I’m connecting with people in a way I haven’t connected with them. I’ve found that when you’re open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you’re being open and honest about.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That’s what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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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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It’s interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That’s what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I’m slightly setting up the audience that there’s a bit of fun involved, as well.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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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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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