Alan Cumming Quotes

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Alan Cumming

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 27, 1965

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Alan Cumming

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 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

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 think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

Alan Cumming

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

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'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.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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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.

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With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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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.

Alan Cumming

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

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

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

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Alan Cumming