Scottish Quotes

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers

Theory, Dare, Based

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott

Dark, Away, Door

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, Work, Strong

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia

American, Both, Style

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers

Love, Great, Anger

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
David Duchovny

I feel more Scottish than Norman.
Alexander McQueen

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
Billy Connolly

Another, Artist, John

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Billy Connolly

Successful, Started, Soon

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Hugh Laurie

History, Single, May

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Family, Time

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Diane Kruger

Peace, Christmas, Famous

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.
Andre Benjamin

Cool, Laugh, Makes

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
Ewan McGregor

Proud, Fiercely

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
Evelyn Glennie

Powerful, Real, Challenge

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Apart, Instincts

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
Craig Ferguson

Funny, Father, Son

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba

Black, Him, Played

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
John Major

Between, Happens, Conflict

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
Natalie Imbruglia

Three, Started, Dancing

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
Ian Mcewan

Put, English, Heard

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

End, Whole, Often

I am Scottish. I am also British.
Andy Murray

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Carter Burwell

Music, Loved, Celtic

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
Stephen Gardiner

Single, Room, Large

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
Denise Mina

Family, Food, Nice

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.
Archie Panjabi

Waiting, Wanted, While

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh

Try, Write, Actually

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Brian Cox

Home, Movies, Thought

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