Sam Heughan quotes:

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

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's hard to make a book episodic.

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.

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.

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