“Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decide...” — Rachael Stirling Quote

“Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decided to drop my English bit, and when anyone asked where I came from, I always said Scotland. It really shaped the fibres of my being.”

“I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.”

“If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.”

“I will fight for America until the day I drop.”

“When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?”

“Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.”