#caitquotes

So, I have to ask about hair: I’m fascinated by your bangs. You cut it right at the end of shooting, right? Did you do it to say, I'm done with Claire?

C: I think it was a really pathetic mini rebellion. I did it in South Africa. We had another two weeks to go. I cut it myself—I robbed the scissors from the hair and makeup department and I took them home and I just was like [chopping motion]. We have a long season. It’s 10 months; it’s very intense. And sometimes I think you want to own a little bit of your own life, and I think that was my really silly personal rebellion.

S: Everything is controlled. You have great freedom playing the characters, but our lives are so structured, you know, the way you look.

Is it a disguise? Can you now go to the grocery store or walk through an airport and people don't recognize you?

C: I mean, I can do that anyway. Because I’m scruffy in my day-to-day life. They don’t expect a TV actress to be as scruffy as I am, it's great. I’ll be standing with him and people will be like, "Sam, Sam, can we take your picture?" And then, like five minutes later, they’ll like, "Oh!" and realize it's me, because they just think I'm this schleppy...I don't know.

S: I think you always look glamorous.

C: No, I don't.

S: You do.

I: You guys are really close friends. So what do you like about each other? And you can also tell me what you dislike... 

Sam, laughing: Long list! 

Cait: I mean, Sam’s just so kind. He’s a really good friend. He always checks in. I don’t know, he has one of the biggest hearts and smallest egos that I know. 

[Sam and Caitriona give each other’s high five] 

Sam: Absolute same. 

Cait, laughing: You can't just pick my answer! 

Sam: No, she’s not only a great actress, she's a great friend and a great advice giver, too. And we have each other's backs. It’s a remarkable journey that we’ve been on, starting this together, being thrown in the deep end and being like, 

‘Okay! We're going to do this together’

It’s a nice bond and I think people are fascinated by it...

We respect each other and have got each other's backs. I’m very fortunate that we have that, it’s great.

"I feel very fortunate that I have a partner like him to work with, it's all good" 

She said. Then she gave us a cheeky smile and added,

"He's a god, let's be honest. He's as good in real life as he is on TV."

He’s so great. Sam has such a kind heart and I think that really brings to Jamie. He plays this strength but there also an incredibile vulnerability and just goodness. You know, he’s just really good solar guy and I think that that shines through and there’s a reason why so many women are fanning themselves when he walks around. But he’s also a talented actor as well.

– Popsugar entertainment 2015

Sam is incredibile. We have so much fun on set. But I think that the thing which Sam brings so necessarly to this role is this beautiful mix of strength and vulnerability, which I think is sort of very crucial to Jamie. And you know, he’s just a sweetheart.

–Access Hollywood 2014

Sam is a sweetheart. As a person he’s just incredibly generous and he’s the same as an actor. We have always really really good fun on set. We love working with each other.

–TV Guide Magazine 2014

He’s incredibile, he really is. When we first met at the screen test, I was running late and immediately he was the most amazing person. He’s so generous with himself and his time. He’s such an incredibile actor, and he’s such a generous actor. […] He really brings an emotional sensitivity to Jamie.

–Access Hollywood 2014

The first time that I met Sam he had obviously been cast before I was, so when I walked into that audition room to test he was just the greatest guy […] it was instantaneous, we became very good friends.

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Ireland. Home. And one thing I will say about Ireland, we don’t eat boiled cabbage, and what’s that thing that everyone eats here for St. Patrick’s Day? Corned beef? We don’t have that. That stopped in 1743. Past. We don’t do that — so don’t eat that for St. Patrick’s Day.

Scotland. Second in the world to Ireland, really. It’s like a poor cousin, but it’s like a cool poor cousin. Like a poor cousin you’d like to hang out with, but not eat any of their food because it’s just weird. They fry everything — Mars Bars, pizzas, seriously.

-BuzzFeed 2015

Cait: You know, Scottish people are, they are hilarious and they have a fantastic sense of humour and it's funny, you know, occasionally people on the street will make a comment but it's always something very fun and very sweet, so yeah I love being here and it's kind of like home but it's different enough to feel like you're away  

-Golden Globe’s Flashback Interview 2017

Sam (to a fan): You don’t wanna go to Ireland, spend all your time in Scotland. Cait: Hey! Sam: It’s a poor relative of Scotland. Dark… Cait: Wow Sam: Depressing…terrible, terrible beer. (looking at Cait) I was in an Irish pub last night, I promise it’s ok… Cait: Irish people are like elephants. We don’t forget. (both laughing) [...] I: What should she (the fan) see? Cait: Well I do Scotland and you do Ireland (laughing) Sam: Great idea…ok Cait: I would say go to Loch Rannoch in Scotland, it's where we film all the stones scene and it's the most beautiful place I've been. Sam: Don't go there, there is a lot of crazy fans (both laughing) it is beautiful, isn't it? Cait: Yeah. Sam: It's amazing Cait: And you can climb Schiehallion while you are there. Sam: You can! It's great and it can be your first munro. [...] Sam: Ireland... I would say Dublin is an amazing city, if you go north the Giant ‘s Causeway is incredible, It's really a fun place and you can go to Bushmill distillery, you can go to Guinness... it doens't all revolve around alcool but it does... sometimes... for me, it's a great country. 

I have so much respect for him. We've gone through this crazy experience together and I think we're very similar people in many ways so yeah for some reasons it just works and you know we have each other’s back and I think that's important. I think that we from day one we were kind of like  "right before we're going to do this and we're going to go through this we gotta look out for each other” and I think we do so...

“Caitriona is in New York I know and it’s snowing and she’s cold and miserable, poor thing, I miss her greatly."  -Youtube Greetings 2015

Obviously I sort have missed my partner in crime but it's not that long, until  he's driving me nuts once again.

  -ECCC 2017

Since you two have been such close partners on this whole experience, what was it like to go on without her?

Yeah. Honestly, it’s like having a death in the family. Well, I don’t know, I mean, it’s just like a different show. It’s hard to separate yourself from the character. Jamie’s present, living in his world, and Claire’s present and living in her world, and they both believe the other is dead. It’s always hard when we’re apart, actually, because she’s a great person, great to come to work with, and a very good actress. But I think it all adds to the reunion—if there’s a reunion, or when there’s a reunion—well you know there’s one in the books. It should be very special.

When I talked to Sam last week, he said filming Season 3 without you was “like having a death in the family—”

Och! He’s already killed me in his mind. Gone. Too sad.

What is it like for you to shoot without Sam?

It’s really strange! Sam and I obviously have worked so closely together for the last three years. Even when I was filming some stuff with Tobias  it was never solid blocks where Sam and I wouldn’t be working at least a couple of days in between. I definitely miss him. The other day we were in the makeup trailer right beside each other, and we’re like, “Oh, you’re off to your world, and I’m off to my world.” It’s very strange... I think pretty soon we’ll be back together, and he’ll be sick of the sight of me.