My background is Scottish.
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 am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.
I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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.
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.
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.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.
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.
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?'
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.
It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies. . . I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.