Alan Cumming Quotes

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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…
• 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 of that too, you can…
• I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when…
• 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 thought I would do it…
• 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 my little-boyness has exploded out…
• 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…
• 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, he thought differently.
• 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…
• Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
• 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 and…
• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
• I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
• It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
• 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…
• Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
• 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…

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