I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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!
Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.
On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.
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.
I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.
The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.
Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
[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.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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.
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?'
Why aren't we investing more in alternate tech? The Saudi Arabians are, Scottish Power is. I was just there. Could it be that we're counting on the oil going on forever and ever and ever and us having all of it and getting very rich?
I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
