I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
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.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: I hate being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low!
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
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 was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
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.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
