“It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like...” — Alan Cumming Quote

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

Elvis and me, we go three or four days sometimes without talking to each other. Sometimes even a week. I see Elvis, perhaps run into him. and we say 'Hi' and pass without another word. We have an understanding that is hard for some folks to comprehend. We say a lot to each other with a look.

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would all go to another apartment, and the Nixon fans would say, 'How do you like the shellacking he gave Kennedy?'

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.