Alan Cumming Quotes
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - that's one that you never thought you would hear something like that on the radio again 'cause it just sounds so much like the Back Bay and what they were doing with music back then.
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I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
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I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
