Alan Cumming Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.”

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

“It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.”

“Macbeth was the first play I ever read.”

“There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.”

“When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.”

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

“I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.”

“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 there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.”

“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.”