A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
ALAN CUMMINGA sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
ALAN CUMMINGI don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
ALAN CUMMINGI like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMINGPerforming a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
ALAN CUMMINGI always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
ALAN CUMMINGIn 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.
ALAN CUMMINGI’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
ALAN CUMMINGI love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
ALAN CUMMINGIt 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.
ALAN CUMMINGI like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
ALAN CUMMINGIf 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.
ALAN CUMMINGIt’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.
ALAN CUMMINGActors 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.
ALAN CUMMINGWith Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
ALAN CUMMINGBe who you like as long as you mean it.
ALAN CUMMINGYou’ll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
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