Alan Cumming Quotes

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

No social class, intellectual category or art form is immune to the snob virus.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don't want to accept anything less than that. I don't see why I should.

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

…an aristocratic, arbitrary ass.

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

People treated others crassly, looked down on the poor, and adored the rich

Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All the northern, and especially the New England states, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

Yeah, it is particularly upsetting to be called, whatever it was, sneery, or a snob, given the background I have.

I've been called worse than a Harvard kid.

If I get good films, I would definitely do them. But most of the stuff that I get is not good at all. They were not good scripts.

I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.

I don't want to be elitist.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.