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.
ALAN CUMMINGWith 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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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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.
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If 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?
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I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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Working with good people is always good.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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I’ve actually found – especially doing my cabaret show – I’m connecting with people in a way I haven’t connected with them. I’ve found that when you’re open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you’re being open and honest about.
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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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