Charley Boorman

I'm a traveller, I love to travel.

— Charley Boorman

I've crashed a lot in the past.

— Charley Boorman

I'm competitive but I'm not butch.

— Charley Boorman

No-one's ever satisfied.

— Charley Boorman

When my sister died, I had my first child.

— Charley Boorman

Travel is the spice of life.

— Charley Boorman

I have been working since I was three.

— Charley Boorman

I don't read when I'm travelling.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

It took four days from discovering I had cancer to finding out how serious the problem was.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

The Irish are great talkers and incredibly friendly, it's just in the DNA.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

I feel I have got away with beating cancer so I am now living life to the full and not worrying about…

— Charley Boorman

The experience of riding an electric bike is very different. Because there was no engine noise and no big vibration coming from…

— Charley Boorman

You need to channel your inner dog: know when you need food and when you need rest. And if you get stressed,…

— Charley Boorman

At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn't really have a clue about what it was, so…

— Charley Boorman

Apart from my weight, I wouldn't change anything about the way I look: you've got what you've got - make the most…

— Charley Boorman

Ewan McGregor and I ate a lot of strange things on our motorcycle journey around the world, but the strangest had to…

— Charley Boorman

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…

— Charley Boorman

When you're nuts about motorbikes, sooner or later, you get to the point where you really want to do a long journey.

— Charley Boorman

My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn…

— Charley Boorman

I grew up in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains just behind Dublin, and got a job in a Volkswagen garage when I…

— Charley Boorman

When you ride electric bikes, you know the terrain that you're riding on becomes a factor and headwinds become a factor. Then…

— Charley Boorman

I think people saw him as someone who did good things for Ireland. If you looked at all the Irish actors in…

— Charley Boorman

If anybody has walked down the road and someone says turn left and you take a right that's a form of dyslexia.…

— Charley Boorman

We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the…

— Charley Boorman

I think it's really important for people to have a passion... a hobby... riding horses or climbing or riding motorcycles or whatever…

— Charley Boorman

I'm amazed how unable I am to deal with the demands that are made on me as an actor. Not the one…

— Charley Boorman

Any trip is good. Any bike trip is better!

— Charley Boorman

Always bring a pack of baby wipes with you.

— Charley Boorman

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

— Charley Boorman

I remember being very free in Ireland.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

I think when you travel for long periods of time you become quite sensitive and emotional.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

Nothing interesting ever happens on motorways or in hotels.

— Charley Boorman