“Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.” PeopleKnowsTwoEye Author:Alan Cumming
“If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWellsDifferentArtistSongSingingAskingImpactDifferent WaysCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentShowsSongAudienceChangedPerceptionFamiliarDifferent WaysClicksI've ChangedCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.” KnowsFeelsKindFeelingsCoursesBitsTalkingDepressionIllnessMental IllnessPowerlessFogFloats Author:Alan Cumming
“I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.” KnowsFeelsUsedChoicesRealizingConnectedScotlandUp To YouCreepsHomelandZeitgeist Author:Alan Cumming
“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.” IfsKnowsPlayScaredTheatre Author:Alan Cumming
“Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsEndsFilmKnow HowHandleTiedTied Up Author:Alan Cumming
“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.” KnowsCountryBigsBig ThingsCalendarsSubtletyFortePantomime Author:Alan Cumming
“The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.” KnowsEndsPlayStoriesHappensFilmCertainTelevisionSceneTheaterNobody Knows Author:Alan Cumming
