Quotes from Alan Cumming

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.

Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

For yes, being a woman, even one with a penis and for the purposes of drama, really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

I loved the sound of the snow. It was calm and echoey at the same time, and the world felt a safer place being insulated by it. My

It's hard to explain how much that feeling of the bottom potentially falling out at any moment takes its toll. It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle. So you develop a coping mechanism, and for us that meant shutting down.

And so I have grown up wanting to feel secure when it comes to money, but doing so by treating it as something to be enjoyed, shared, and not given power.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.

These kinds of events, though seemingly glamorous and sophisticated from the outside, are often organized with the finesse of a kindergarten nativity play, and one whose teachers are all lapsed members of Narcotics Anonymous.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. I

go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

I cried for my granny and my mum and every working-class woman who had sacrificed like them and been denied proper closure and emotional balm because they had slipped through the system, no, had been failed by the system, and hadn't the means to do so. I

Who Do You Think You Are?

I also understood how events or circumstances could cascade out of control and your entire ability to deal with the present can be lost. When

So it's not that every second of my childhood was filled with doom. But every second was filled with the possibility that in an instant my father's mood would plunge into irrationality, rage, and ultimately violence. This very feeling, this possibility, is what darkens the part of my mind where my childhood stories live.

really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able

I really wanted to show that it wasn't all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all had together, times when we had fun, when we laughed. In the interests of balance, I even wanted to be able to describe some instances of kindness and tenderness involving us all. But I just couldn't. I

For yes, being a woman, even one with a penis and for the purposes of drama, really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics. And I think that has happened so that men feel they can ogle them and protect them in equal measure. Just

I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything—an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person—you have merely decided to