Alan Cumming Quotes - Page 2

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• I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. 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!

  Alan Cumming

  Fun, Hate, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Stupid, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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• I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

  Alan Cumming

  Drama, Film, Imagine

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

  Alan Cumming

  Different, Disguise

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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

  People, Helping, Help Me

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• I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Actors, Intimidated

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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

  Alan Cumming

  Ease, Stranger, Feels

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

  Alan Cumming

  Drama, Kids, School

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• Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Firsts

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

  Alan Cumming

  Song, Artist, Impact

  "Cumming around again". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Outsiders, Feels

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Different, Conformity, Easy

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• Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

  Alan Cumming

  Over You, Kind, Bother

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• You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

  Alan Cumming

  Tired, Long, Perspective

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Stories, Television

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• When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  Alan Cumming

  Growing Up, Adults, Grows

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  Alan Cumming

  Country, Calendars, Bigs

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

  Alan Cumming

  Directors, Film, Film Directors

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Team, Insecure, Thinking

  "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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

  Alan Cumming

  Firsts, Odd, Scottish

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Fun, Heart, Mean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Lying, Gay, People

  "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

  Alan Cumming

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Cumming around again". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Film

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• 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

  Thinking, Missing, Example

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