Alan Cumming Quotes, Drama Quotes, Film Quotes

I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

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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.

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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.

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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

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

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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

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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.

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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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

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

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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