Alan Cumming Quotes

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

Alan Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeSchoolBrotherMeRemember

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

Joe Kaeser

UnfairTradeBecauseShould

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Jessica Biel

HomeChildBrainLookSquirrelDead

I entered KC College in 1975. When I came here for my interview, for my admission, every person I spoke to spoke to me in Sindhi. Be it Kundanani, Bhambani, Nichani, Kevalramani... and they also thought that Ambani was the same. For a moment, I thought that I got my admission at KC College because I have a 'ni' in my surname.

Anil Ambani

MomentCollegeMeThoughtPerson

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Jean-Marc Vallee

BeautifulTryingYouVanityWayGet

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.

Amandla Stenberg

PeopleWorldSmallFeelLookGroup

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Tom Scholz

ComputersYouInformationLostUp

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Rod Steiger

CharacterThinkingSlowYouFast

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

Mary Lambert

LoveMeRightThroughToneJust

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Mike Stoller

GreatTimeWritingThoughtNever

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

TogetherCuriosityProcessMusicians

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Art Buchwald

PastTaxTaxesIn The PastThings

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Annie Leibovitz

WorkFindWayMy OwnGlamourOwn

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