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.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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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.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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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.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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.
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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.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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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.
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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.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
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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.
