Born Quote by Ian Mckellen

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't…

— Gina McKee

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be…

— Lena Headey

There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

— Lesley Sharp

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

— Dick Strawbridge

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

— Jimmy Somerville

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't always portrayed…

— Lesley Sharp

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

— Ruth Wilson

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains,…

— Clyde Edgerton

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I know I'm not as north as Leeds but I'm northern.

— Aaron Ramsdale

I come from the south, so you're useless, and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you. You're…

— Ruth Wilson

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell