Alan Cumming Quotes

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.

Alan Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 27, 1965

Topics

LifeGoodMeThinkAlwaysPrecious

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.

John Burroughs

TreeSailFlyingDownSquirrelTop

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Andrea Arnold

WritingWorldThinkRememberWhy

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Robert Kiyosaki

GoldStillPercentAroundEver

When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self.

RM

LoveThinkSelfLonelySayWant

I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.

Russ

BestPersonDrummerNeverFirst

I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.

Johnny Depp

GiftHonorYouDownKnowShe

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Diana Nyad

DreamsTimeYour DreamsMeNameYou

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Deepak Chopra

YourselfPainYouWillScaryImply

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Clint Eastwood

GreatBestAwardYouMoviesJust

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Bryan Burrough

YouKnowNeverExpectWriterSet

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

Antony Gormley

LifeChangeBeautifulArtDirection

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

Ariel Sharon

PeopleSolidaritySocialExist

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