Scottish famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.
-- Alan Chadwick -
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
-- Alan Cumming -
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
-- Alexander Smith -
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
-- Arthur Balfour -
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
-- Ashley Jensen -
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing
-- Billy Boyd -
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
-- Billy Connolly -
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
-- Billy Connolly -
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-- Callum Keith Rennie -
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
-- Carter Burwell -
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
-- Charles Lamb -
Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
-- Ed Sheeran -
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
-- Eddie Izzard -
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.
-- Edgar Meyer -
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
-- Gail Carriger -
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
-- Ian Rankin -
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
-- James M. Barrie -
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.
-- James McAvoy -
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.
-- Jeanette MacDonald -
Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
-- Joey McIntyre -
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.
-- John Hamill -
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
-- John Major -
I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
-- Karen Gillan -
The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.
-- Ken Stott -
If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.
-- Mel Gibson -
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
-- Menzies Campbell -
I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
-- Natalie Imbruglia -
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
-- Nina Conti -
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!
-- Robert Carlyle -
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
-- Shirley Henderson -
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
-- William Edmondstoune Aytoun -
The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.
-- Winnie Ewing -
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.
-- Alasdair MacLean -
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
-- Charlie Adam -
I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.
-- Jonathan Meades -
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
-- Kenneth Cranham -
There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.
-- Nell Hudson -
Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.
-- Scott Hutchison -
I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.
-- Yoshi Wada -
Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.
-- Graeme Souness
