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 CUMMINGWith all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
-
-
It’s exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you’ve got to up your game.
ALAN CUMMING -
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
ALAN CUMMING -
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!
ALAN CUMMING -
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.
ALAN CUMMING -
I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.
ALAN CUMMING -
I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
ALAN CUMMING -
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.
ALAN CUMMING -
It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.
ALAN CUMMING -
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don’t think you’re very good at it – which is rubbish. You’re missing out here.
ALAN CUMMING -
You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
ALAN CUMMING -
When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
ALAN CUMMING -
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
ALAN CUMMING -
Be who you like as long as you mean it.
ALAN CUMMING -
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
ALAN CUMMING -
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
ALAN CUMMING