Alan Cumming quotes

Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, writer, and activist known for his diverse roles in film, television, and theatre. His performances range from stage musicals like "Cabaret" to acclaimed television series such as "The Good Wife." He is also recognized for his outspoken advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights and humanitarian causes. Here are 51 of his quotes:

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

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Alan Cumming

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Alan Cumming

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

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

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

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

Alan Cumming

I just don't like meat. Rotten carcasses don't feel good inside in my body. I've also seen some horrible documentaries about the hormones and things that go into meat. On a health level, meat is so scary. [...] It's not just about staying away from meat, it's about keeping things in your diet that make you feel good. That's why you eat vegetarian in the first place. [...] I think killing to make or eat things is horrific. It seems like there was a movement against wearing fur in fashion, but overnight it's fine again. I hate the way we pay lip service to issues like that.

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

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

Alan Cumming

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

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

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I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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 really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Alan Cumming

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.

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 that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

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

Alan Cumming

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

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.

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