You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
ALAN CUMMINGIf 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?
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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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 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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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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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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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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 love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
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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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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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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
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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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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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It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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