Scottish Quotes - Page 3

• I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

  Ewan McGregor

  Proud, Fierce

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• 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

  Scotland, Enlightenment, May

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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• 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

  Christmas, Football, Night

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• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Dancing, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Blood

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• 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

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• 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

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Humour

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

  David Duchovny

  Blood, Proud

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• [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

  Believe, Scotland, Violent

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• The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.

  Peter Mullan

  Girl, Drama, Passion

  "AGENT ORANGE: A talk with director Peter Mullan about The Magdalene Sisters!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 9, 2003.

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• I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Home, Blood, Names

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• Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Scotland, Needs

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• Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Scotland, Giving, Hours

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171

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• 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

  House, Stones, Littles

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• Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

  Florence King

  Exercise, Golf, People

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• I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Iron, Numbers

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• The settled will of the Scottish people.

  John Smith

  People

  1994 Of the creation of a Scottish parliament, in a speech at the Scottish Labour Conference,11 Mar.

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• Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Eye, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

  Rupert Friend

  People, Levels, Reputation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Scripts, Rethinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

  Alan Chadwick

  Theatre, Stories, Greatest Success

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• 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

  Temper, Shows, Thrift

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

  Bill Forsyth

  Character, People, Phrases

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• My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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