Alan Cumming Quotes

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

Alan Cumming

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• I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Know
  • Like
  • Immigrants

• Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Done
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Music
  • Career

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Everyone should be good at what they do.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Should
  • Everyone

• To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Marketing

• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Guy
  • Feeling
  • Band

• When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.

  

  Bobby Hackett
  • Swimming
  • Beat
  • United States of America

• Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Trying

• It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Up
  • Good