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 CUMMINGI think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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I started to itch to do a play again and ‘Macbeth’ came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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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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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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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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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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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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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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It’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.
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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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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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’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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