Quotes by Alan Cumming

About Alan Cumming:

Alan Cumming is a Scottish-American actor, author, and activist who has appeared in numerous films, television shows and plays.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

Alan Cumming

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

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Alan Cumming

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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

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

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Alan Cumming

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

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

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 am...

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Alan Cumming

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

Alan Cumming

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.

Alan Cumming

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 if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

Alan Cumming

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

Alan Cumming

Author Bio

  • NameAlan Cumming
  • DescriptionScottish actor
  • BornJanuary 27, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Comedian; Film Director; Voice Actor
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire