Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Charley Boorman - Page 2

All kids love bikes and cars. But there was a guy in my local village, Tony, who gave me a go on a bike. My first proper motorbike was when I was about 12, but I'd ridden on his and he was the one who really got me into bikes.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

Dad wanted me to act because it was a clever way of boosting my confidence.

I feel I have got away with beating cancer so I am now living life to the full and not worrying about whether it will come back.

I mean, if the country's in the middle of a war of something, I probably wouldn't go.

When I was on the motorbike in the Dakar Rally I had a lot of time to think.

Travelling is fantastic fun and you see far more of a country journeying through it.

Any trip is good. Any bike trip is better!

I'm very grateful to being dyslexic and I owe my career to being dyslexic.

Get on to social media and ask questions about the areas you're going to. You'll be surprised at the amount of responses from people who want you to experience some of the amazing things they discovered themselves.

On the whole, GPS is fine but you still need maps because the information available can be different to what's on the ground. You need to be vigilant for obstacles.

I'm a traveller, I love to travel.

If you say to people, 'I'm off to Papa New Guinea,' you'll often get a bad reaction - usually from people who've never been there. There's this fear of the unknown. And 99% of the time, you end up surprised - it rekindles your faith in humanity.

If you're dyslexic I think it's very important to know that you can do anything you want and it's not simply because you're dyslexic that you should be shoved on the side.

Ewan McGregor and I travelled 20,000 miles from London to New York by bike. It was incredible.

Travel is the spice of life.

I don't read when I'm travelling.

I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.

We all live in a very tranquil, sanitised world where you're told to do everything, and when you travel, it's very liberating not to be in that crazy, nannied state.

Long Way Round' was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

I was dyslexic - still am dyslexic - and as child, I found things very difficult. I think my father realised that in acting and stuff I could express myself.

Ever since I've been seven I've been trying to make a living out of motorbikes.

Africa can make people see things differently, and they realise the world is not as dangerous as people think.

My ideal holiday would be to spend the first week doing lots of fun stuff, then to spend the second week relaxing on a beach.

I always wonder who people are when I meet them; where they live, how they get home from work and little things like that.

Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.

When you ride electric bikes, you know the terrain that you're riding on becomes a factor and headwinds become a factor. Then there is tailwinds, which is behind you... it makes such a difference going downhill and stuff like that.

You get sentimental on the road. I'd see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.

I remember being very free in Ireland.

We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the kids, but the real reason is that I can put my dirt bikes and a mattress in the back, then get out of London for the weekend.

Excalibur' was a quest for my father. I remember it was manic on the film set. And we had these massive castle sets. I think my dad was under tremendous pressure making the movie because there was so much going on. I remember it was a hard one to make - a lot of stress and strain.

If you look back as far as the first explorers, they all took with them the latest gadget.

It's very difficult to say what experience was the hardest. 'Long Way Round' was the first one, so we didn't know anything.

I lost my sister Telsche to ovarian cancer in 1997 and my grandparents on my mother's side both had cancer but well into their 70s.

Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.

I suppose all the things I've done have been different.

I think people saw him as someone who did good things for Ireland. If you looked at all the Irish actors in 'Excalibur' alone - Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson - there was a whole gaggle of Irish actors who've gone on to become stars, so Dad was really part of that.

I had a wonderful childhood, looking back on it.

My dad had no interest in motorbikes at all. It didn't come up on his radar.