Quotes from Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

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

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.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.