Quotes By Alan Cumming

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

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.

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.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

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

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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

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.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.