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.
ALAN CUMMINGI don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people’s songs, you’re asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it’s a song they know very well.
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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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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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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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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it’s much more prevalent in America.
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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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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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