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.
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.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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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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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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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 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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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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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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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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