Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMINGI love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
More Alan Cumming Quotes
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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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.
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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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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.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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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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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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