You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.
ALAN CUMMINGOften 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.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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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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I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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He … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
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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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I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.
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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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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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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it’s much more prevalent in America.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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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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