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  • The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Play Quotes , Stories Quotes
  • Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Song Quotes , People Quotes
  • I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Fun Quotes , Hate Quotes
  • 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?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Gay Quotes , Boys Quotes
  • If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Country Quotes , Bullying Quotes
  • Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Real Quotes , Struggle Quotes
  • If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Song Quotes , Artist Quotes
  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Fun Quotes , Heart Quotes