Alan Cumming Quotes

• It’s really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

  Alan Cumming

• It’s about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  Alan Cumming

• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

  Alan Cumming

• In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.’

  Alan Cumming

• I’m Scottish first, and it’s odd to hear that I’m a Scottish-American.

  Alan Cumming

• I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

  Alan Cumming

• I’m not a fan of Twitter.

  Alan Cumming

• 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.

  Alan Cumming

• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  Alan Cumming

• I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  Alan Cumming

• I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

  Alan Cumming

• I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you’re discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you’re feeling a bit insecure.

  Alan Cumming

• I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

  Alan Cumming

• 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.

  Alan Cumming

• I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

  Alan Cumming

• I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

  Alan Cumming

• I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.

  Alan Cumming

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I’m a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I’ve lived my life backwards.

  Alan Cumming

• I don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

  Alan Cumming

• I don’t avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

  Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming (46)

Birth:	22nd January, 1965
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Producer, Singer, Writer

About

Alan Cumming, OBE, is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, singer, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the M.C. Cumming was born in Aberfeldy, in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Mary, an insurance company secretary, and Alex Cumming, a forester. He has stated that his father was physically and emotionally abusive towards him. He has one older brother, Tom, and a niece and two nephews. Brought up in Angus, Cumming attended Monikie Primary School and Carnoustie High School. Following graduation, he spent a year and a half employed as an editor and columnist for the pop and TV magazine TOPS before entering the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. On graduation from Drama school he married fellow student, Hilary Lyon; they divorced eight years later and had no children.

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