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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With 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
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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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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, “I could sing that song. I’ve got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs.
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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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If they’re not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they’re doing is wrong?
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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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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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.
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There are some days when you don’t feel like being Alan Cumming.
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When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.
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So if I’m swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don’t want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I’m a vitamin!
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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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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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