We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.

~ Alan Cumming

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

~ Alan Cumming

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

~ Alan Cumming

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I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

~ Alan Cumming

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