A biography for Caitriona Balfehasn’t been written yet.
“There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.”
“I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.”
“The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.”
“I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.”
“Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.”
“'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.”
“When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'”
“I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.”
“Fandom is amazing.”
“Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.”
“You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.”
“While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.”
“The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.”
“I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.”
“I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.”
“The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.”
“I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.”
“So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.”
“I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.”
“With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.”