I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. – Alan Cumming
My feeling about work is its 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. – 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 Im choosing my homeland. Its funny: when you get older these things creep up to you. – 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 storys going to end and how its going to go. But on television nobody knows whats going to happen, even the writers. – Alan Cumming