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18 Top Alan Cumming Quotes

Famous As: Scottish Actor, Writer and Singer Known for His TV Series ‘The Good Wife’
Born On: January 27, 1965
Born In: Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland
Age: 59 Years

Alan Cumming is a reputed actor known for doing unconventional roles backed by his versatile acting skills. He was interested in acting from an early age and went on to train at ‘Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama’. He acted and directed in some of the plays and was honored for his prolific performances. His most acclaimed role in the theater was in ‘Cabaret’, a musical drama and was honored with many accolades. This helped him to work with some renowned theater groups and paved his path to the big screen. He debuted with the film ‘Prague’ and was nominated for the ‘BAFTA Awards’. This made him famous and soon he made his debut in Hollywood with the film ‘Circle of Friends’. He further worked in many movies and became a known artist of the film fraternity. He even worked significantly in theaters and TV shows like ‘Tin Man’ which justified his reputation as an actor. He was honored with various awards including the ‘Laurence Olivier Award’ and the ‘Top Television Newcomer’. Many of the characters that he has played have become quite popular and so are their dialogues and thoughts, which are extensively quoted. We bring to you a collection of thoughts and quotes by Alan Cumming which will give you a glimpse into his mind.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Alan Cumming
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Alan Cumming
Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Alan Cumming
It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Alan Cumming
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Alan Cumming
It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

Alan Cumming
I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Alan Cumming
Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

Alan Cumming
I don't understand this but I never felt any shame about my sexuality and the idea that I found boys attractive as well as girls

I don't understand this but I never felt any shame about my sexuality and the idea that I found boys attractive as well as girls

Alan Cumming
Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

Alan Cumming
I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

Alan Cumming
And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

Alan Cumming
And so I have grown up wanting to feel secure when it comes to money, but doing so by treating it as something to be enjoyed, shared, and not given power.

And so I have grown up wanting to feel secure when it comes to money, but doing so by treating it as something to be enjoyed, shared, and not given power.

Alan Cumming
Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

Alan Cumming
Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

Alan Cumming
But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.

But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.

Alan Cumming
You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

Alan Cumming
The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

Alan Cumming