For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish.… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I've actually found - especially doing my cabaret show - I'm connecting with people in a way I haven't connected with them.… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to show that it wasn’t all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
