Alan Cumming Quotes
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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A woman's thought runs before her actions.
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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
