"You should have an experience; it shouldn't just……" — Alan Cumming

"You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience."

— Alan Cumming

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47 Quotes by Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad,…
I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware…
I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of…
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never…
I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up…
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to…
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different,…
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out…

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And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave. — Francis Scott Key
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson

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