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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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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.
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I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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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!
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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You should *have* an experience it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
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