I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
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...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING A good book has no ending.
R.D. CUMMING I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the close...
ALAN CUMMING I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it'...
CHARLES CUMMING Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It&...
ALAN CUMMING It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important...
ALAN CUMMING It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness ...
ALAN CUMMING Our concern is that human industrialization could be a trigger for extreme climate changes on a glob...
BRIAN CUMMING We have shown that there have been large fluctuations in water availability on a decadal to centenni...
BRIAN CUMMING From a human point of view, the more we know, the better off we'll be. In a region that is susceptib...
BRIAN CUMMING So, if an extreme climate change does occur in the future it could create widespread devastation.
BRIAN CUMMING Long droughts have been implicated in the collapse of many ancient civilizations on virtually every ...
BRIAN CUMMING Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because ...
ALAN CUMMING I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my litt...
ALAN CUMMING Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my ...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. S...
ALAN CUMMING You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. Y...
ALAN CUMMING I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never t...
ALAN CUMMING Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
ALAN CUMMING It would take three days, and I might go via the Welsh borders or rural Lincolnshire. These days, yo...
JOHN CUMMING Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
ALAN CUMMING My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that'...
ALAN CUMMING We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participa...
ELAINE CUMMING Another inquiry isn't going to do anything.
DAVID CUMMING You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
ALAN CUMMING Clearly the GST windfall is going to be considerable and I think the Prime Minister's option of doin...
DAVID CUMMING I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitge...
ALAN CUMMING The developer was caught up in the changeover between the old planning officer and the new and in th...
C. CUMMING I don't think the subdivision of this block of land will bring much detriment when you consider the ...
C. CUMMING When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
ALAN CUMMING They really have to prove themselves. Then their involvement in treatment will be held to a high bar...
GEORGIA CUMMING When you think about what they have to deal with, and the discussions they need to have in treatment...
GEORGIA CUMMING If we were to treat everybody for the whole length of their sentence we would be facing a significan...
GEORGIA CUMMING We look at does a person have a prior sexual offense? Does the offender have a prior non-sexual reco...
GEORGIA CUMMING I'm not surprised that the community is upset about this. Sex offenses are very serious.
GEORGIA CUMMING There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
ALAN CUMMING I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have...
ALAN CUMMING I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God s...
ALAN CUMMING I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're n...
ALAN CUMMING I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.
ALAN CUMMING I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
ALAN CUMMING You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get...
ALAN CUMMING Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to...
ALAN CUMMING Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
ALAN CUMMING With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
ALAN CUMMING I'm not good with bullies and zealots.
CHARLES CUMMING I enjoy writing.
CHARLES CUMMING As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
CHARLES CUMMING I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the profession...
CHARLES CUMMING Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a ...
CHARLES CUMMING A good book has no ending.
R. D. CUMMING Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...
ANNE LAMOTT Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday...
ANNE HATHAWAY I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and ...
ANNE LAMOTT I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ...
ANNE LAMOTT Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
ANNE BRADSTREET Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more ...
ANNE FADIMAN I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma...
ANNE BRONTE It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTE Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of ...
ANNE BRONTE All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise...
ANNE BRONTE There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
ANNE BRONTE I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for eve...
ANNE BRONTE A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him t...
ANNE BRONTE A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
ANNE BRONTE Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if ...
ANNE BRONTE The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old en...
ANNE HATHAWAY My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the ...
ANNE BURRELL I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist...
ANNE STEVENSON Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool...
ANNE HATHAWAY The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
ANNE LAMOTT I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going a...
ANNE BURRELL The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that...
ANNE PERRY Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it s...
ANNE PERRY I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
ANNE PERRY I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well pr...
ANNE PERRY Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history, ....
ANNE SULLIVAN This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.
ANNE SULLIVAN Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
ANNE SULLIVAN Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event th...
ANNE SULLIVAN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ...
ANNE SULLIVAN Q-Tips is such a universally recognized and beloved brand with so much versatility. We look forward ...
ANNE SULLIVAN If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today, ... Re...
ANNE SULLIVAN My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in ...
ANNE LAMOTT Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the...
ANNE FRANK Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle yo...
ANNE ENRIGHT It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or st...
ANNE SPENCER The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come vis...
ANNE SEXTON No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often...
ANNE LAMOTT People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.
ANNE SEXTON I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be buil...
ANNE SULLIVAN Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...
ANNE LAMOTT Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma...
ANNE FRANK Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
ANNE BYRHHE In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo...
ANNE FRANK And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
ANNE RIDLER Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the i...
ANNE FRANK You can plant a dream.
ANNE CAMPBELL It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing...
ANNE SMEDLEY It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible...
ANNE FRANK I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear...
ANNE FRANK I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surround...
ANNE FRANK Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
ANNE BAXTER It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from...
ANNE BAXTER And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK