Books Quote by Alan Cumming Download Open image “Macbeth was the first play I ever read.” — Alan Cumming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ever First Firsts Macbeth Play Read
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
“Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and this scene… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be. — John Tiffany 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
