It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
ALAN CUMMINGI think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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It’s interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That’s what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I’m slightly setting up the audience that there’s a bit of fun involved, as well.
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I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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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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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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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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It is actually important to do songs they’re familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I’ve changed people’s perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
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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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