I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

- Alan Rickman

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

- Aidan Gillen

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

- Alexander Chee

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

- Alexander McCall Smith

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

- Carol Ann Duffy

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

- Davy Jones

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.

- Joan Lingard

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

- M. J. Hyland

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

- Neil Cross

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

- Nik Kershaw

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

- Peter Higgs

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

- Rhys Darby

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

- Rupert Friend