Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
ALAN CUMMINGWhen there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I’d been depressed before, of course. But I’m talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I’m talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog.
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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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Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.
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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’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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It just seems to me that it’s hypocritical for us as a culture to say, “Bullying is a terrible thing,” when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I’ve been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn’t change anything. I’m happy with who I am!
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