Alan Cumming

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if…

— Alan Cumming

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…

— Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

— Alan Cumming

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

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

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working…

— Alan Cumming

“I really wanted to show that it wasn’t all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times…

— Alan Cumming

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are…

— Alan Cumming

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean.…

— Alan Cumming

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen…

— Alan Cumming

“You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it…

— Alan Cumming

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining…

— Alan Cumming

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

— Alan Cumming

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me,…

— Alan Cumming

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was…

— Alan Cumming

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

— Alan Cumming

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression…

— Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist.…

— Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming

“It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.”

— Alan Cumming

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

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene…

— Alan Cumming

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

— Alan Cumming

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

— Alan Cumming

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

— Alan Cumming