Sam Heughan Quotations

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

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.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.

The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

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.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

Theres something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just I love that.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.