Quotes from Alan Cumming

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

because of Tommy Darling, genetically and through his legacy, I embrace change, I never take anything for granted, and I never forget how lucky I have been, and am.

But we shouldn't be surprised if a one-night stand should yield a lifelong intimate friendship, for what is a dalliance but an alliance that begins with a big D?!

Life is pain management and a slow march towards death, but here's to having fun while we're marching!

I was not talking to a sane man in those phone calls. There was a disconnect and an egotism that was at times breathtaking: His insistence that I must have known I was not his son all along. His question "Did you not notice we never bonded?" And worst of all, the utter absence of an apology or any hint that he understood what he had put me through when I eventually was the one to break the truth to him. All these things regularly float through my mind and convince me of his madness.

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

I think I needed to remind myself that wherever my future might take me, it was important never to forget where I'd come from. That sweater is still a portal to another time, another life. Yet it is a part of my happiness today because it is a part of me.

I looked up at myself in the mirror of my trailer. I had just had the most horrible conversation of my life, and the very last conversation I would ever have with my tormentor. I was free of him at last. I wonder what he would have done had he known that during that conversation, I was wearing high heels, a bra and panties, and a full face of makeup.

So yet another man had encountered the morass of my family and felt the only solution was to put a gun to his head. This does not bode well.

neither money nor my work define me. I like them, they allow me to do many things I enjoy, but if I did not have them, I know I would be able to find something else to do, I would be able to survive, I could be happy. Sometimes

If that was your reality, I think you'd have a completely different attitude about the value of life, including your own. Mostly,

I was always being told by him how much of a disappointment I was, both in my appearance—my hair, of course, but also my posture, my weight,

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

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

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

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.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

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.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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.

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.

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

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

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.