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.
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’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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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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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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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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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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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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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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Working with good people is always good.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.
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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’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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