Alan Cumming Quotes
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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My worst expectations never happened.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
