I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.
Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
I don't need to be successful. I love theater and I love acting so as long as I'm doing that I'm happy and I'm learning. If I end up going back to the U. K. to do some theater, great! Sounds fantastic.
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.
It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.
I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.