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Alan Cumming

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.

— Alan Cumming age

I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

— Alan Cumming you

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.

— Alan Cumming literature

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

— Alan Cumming you

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 of me. I've lived my life backwards.

— Alan Cumming life

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

— Alan Cumming self

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

— Alan Cumming man

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

— Alan Cumming people

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

— Alan Cumming time

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?

— Alan Cumming life

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

— Alan Cumming america

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.

— Alan Cumming life

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 people

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

— Alan Cumming age

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

— Alan Cumming work

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 do things to help that.

— Alan Cumming war

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 out here.

— Alan Cumming good

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

— Alan Cumming time

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 you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

— Alan Cumming funny

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.

— Alan Cumming time

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 anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

— Alan Cumming work

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

— Alan Cumming wit

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

— Alan Cumming people

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

— Alan Cumming love

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

— Alan Cumming think

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they dont have an agenda. Its more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

— Alan Cumming age

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