I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
ALAN CUMMINGNowadays people don’t know how to handle it if all the ends aren’t tied up and they’re not told what to think in films. And if they’re challenged, they think it’s something wrong with the film.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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So if I’m swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don’t want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I’m a vitamin!
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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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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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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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’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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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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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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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I’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.
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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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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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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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