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Alan Cumming Quotes

Alan Cumming quotes

Scottish Actor January 27, 1965

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Alan Cumming quote: "I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly..."
I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air. 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. Alan Cumming
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? Alan Cumming
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. Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming quote: "So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in..."
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive. Alan Cumming
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. Alan Cumming
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it. Alan Cumming
I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure. Alan Cumming
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going. Alan Cumming
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here. 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. Alan Cumming
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. Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming quote: "It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all..."
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming quote: "I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers..."
I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease. Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming quote: "Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way..."
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting. Alan Cumming

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