Alan Cumming Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
-
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-
I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
-
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
-
I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
-
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
-
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
-
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
-
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
-
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
-
My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
-
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
-
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
-
My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
-
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
-
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
-
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
-
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
-
As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.
-
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
-
Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
-
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.
