Alan Cumming Quotes

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

Alan Cumming

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• I feel very, very blessed.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Very

• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • True
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Dream
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Steal

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• I don't take myself too seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Myself
  • Take
  • Seriously

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mean, I am stern in my own way - I am not one to let children run over me - but I am very, very good with children, and I can usually get what I want out of them.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Good
  • Children
  • Family

• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Hand
  • Hustle

• Someone like Albert sees history as so much more than just history. Albert saw history as the flow of life.

  

  Donald Davis
  • Life
  • History
  • Albert

• The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Destiny
  • Battles

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

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel