109 Quotes by Sam Heughan

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.