Alan Cumming Quotes

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 live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
I'm not a fan of Twitter.
I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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 to your aura.
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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 make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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 masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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