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 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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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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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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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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When there’s an adult person who’s scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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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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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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