Alan Cumming Quotes, Song Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

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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.

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

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He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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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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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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

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

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It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

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

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

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

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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.

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