Alan Cumming Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
-- Alan CummingSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.
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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?”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.
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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.”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.
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“With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.”
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“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”
-- Alan CummingSource : Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.32, Canongate Books
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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.”
-- Alan CummingSource : Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.247, Canongate Books
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“It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir review - Alan Cumming recalls pain without self-pity" by Damian Barr, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2014.
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“Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.”
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“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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“When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.”
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“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.”
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“There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.
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“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.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“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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“I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.”
-- Alan CummingSource : Source: film.avclub.com
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“I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.”
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“In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.”
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“You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.”
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“Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Alan Cumming on Macbeth: 'It’s nuts, what we’re doing. Nuts!’" by Jasper Rees, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 6, 2012.
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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.”
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“It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.”
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“I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.”
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“I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.”
-- Alan CummingSource : "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.
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“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. 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.”
-- Alan Cumming
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