Be who you like as long as you mean it.
ALAN CUMMINGIt’s about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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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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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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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 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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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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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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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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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don’t have an agenda. It’s more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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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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It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.
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Working with good people is always good.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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