Alan Cumming Quotes

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.

Alan Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

John Lescroart

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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

Angela Duckworth

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up.

Amanda Schull

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I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.

Troy Donahue

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Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.

Tory Burch

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I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

Robert Taylor

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There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

Russell Wilson

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The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

Rudy Giuliani

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I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!

Michael Moore

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For greed all nature is too little.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I miss high school football.

Jon Gruden

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