Alan Cumming quotes

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. (Alan Cumming)
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. View quote
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Be who you like as long as you mean it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. 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? View quote
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. View quote
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I just don't like meat. Rotten carcasses don't feel good inside in my body. I've also seen some horrible documentaries about the hormones and things that go into meat. On a health level, meat is so scary. [...] It's not just about staying away from meat, it's about keeping things in your diet that make you feel good. That's why you eat vegetarian in the first place. [...] I think killing to make or eat things is horrific. It seems like there was a movement against wearing fur in fashion, but overnight it's fine again. I hate the way we pay lip service to issues like that. View quote
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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me. View quote
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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. (Alan Cumming)
I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air. View quote
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. View quote
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. View quote
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I'm not a fan of Twitter. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. View quote
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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease. View quote
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read. View quote
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. View quote
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people. (Alan Cumming)
I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. View quote
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. View quote
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