Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.
I get on so well with lots of Scots, and a man who had a big influence on my career and was a great mate, Johnny Paton, was Scottish. But I became a hate figure in Scotland because of my views on football. That always made me chuckle, and it still does.
My roots are Scottish. My dad’s parents are from Scotland, and my mum’s dad is Scots.
After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.
In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.
British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I’ve been saying, ‘It’s not my country; I don’t live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics’.
Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?
I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It’s an earthling epidemic; it’s not isolated in the black community.
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
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.
My accent is… sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Scottish people don’t take themselves too seriously. I think you have to be like that when you’re from a place where the weather is bad.
My mum’s maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me.
I’m fiercely proud to be Scottish.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade – to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
I believe in not whistling backstage and not saying the name of the Scottish play.
I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.
My heritage is Scottish and a lot of Irish, too.
The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar – they love their football.
I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
‘Black Watch’ has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that’s fantastic. It’s a very particular kind of theatre. It’s about the music, the movement, the whole ‘event’ of it.
I have always followed Scottish football quite closely.
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.
The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.
My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.
As a young Scottish footballer growing up – I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games – Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.
I’m hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn’t have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.
I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother’s side there’s a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.
Whenever I’ve been in Scotland I’ve had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football – referees included – are always under terrific scrutiny.
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding.
I don’t think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that’s an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli… Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation – an embassy car instead of a bus.
If you don’t like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.
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.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it’s a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
I have always loved Scottish music – all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I’m Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
Being Scottish, I’m probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, ‘You’re cautious with your money.’ I don’t think that ‘s the worst thing in the world to be.
I’m quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you’re too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960’s and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
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.
I started racing at club level, then the Scottish championship, then the British championship, then the European, then the Worlds. I went through all the various ranks. I spent a good ten years doing karting.
I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys’ teams.
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
You just have to have a song that you’re desperate to play along to, and for me it was ‘Turn’ by the Scottish band Travis. I went to see them headline the Scottish T in the Park Festival, so after that festival, I went home and taught myself all of the Travis back catalog with an old guitar and a little chord book.
I’d love to work with Gerry Butler, Alan Cummings, and Ewan McGregor. It’d be amazing if we could do a Scottish Hollywood movie.
I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don’t have one identity. I’m Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.
Since the show started, Scottish tourism has increased a great deal – there is definitely an ‘Outlander’ effect.
When a Scottish player goes down the road you’re always going to get doubters. You always get people saying you’re from a pub league.
My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I’d much rather be Scottish than English.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there’s a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don’t take yourself too seriously, and you don’t get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
