Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

I had a wonderful childhood, looking back on it.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

Children aren't meant to die before their parents.

— Charley Boorman

You need to think Gucci when you are camping - make things as luxurious as you can.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

On the Internet you can swap GPS details and use tools like Google Maps. It's amazing.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

GPS devices are fantastic, but when travelling, especially in the middle of Africa, you must always bring a map as well.

— Charley Boorman

On the whole, GPS is fine but you still need maps because the information available can be different to what's on the…

— Charley Boorman

I think obviously when you're first diagnosed with cancer you definitely panic and that your mind races and thinks the worst but…

— Charley Boorman

My ideal holiday would be to spend the first week doing lots of fun stuff, then to spend the second week relaxing…

— Charley Boorman

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

— Charley Boorman

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

— Charley Boorman

We all live in a very tranquil, sanitised world where you're told to do everything, and when you travel, it's very liberating…

— Charley Boorman

I don't have to win at tennis. I have a friend who is so competitive at tennis I sometimes throw a game…

— Charley Boorman

Mongolia was unbelievable. Great parts of it are completely untouched by modern development, but the roads, when you could even call them…

— Charley Boorman

In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in…

— Charley Boorman

I was a child actor in 'Deliverance,' but not the banjo player. It was my dad's big movie as a director, and…

— Charley Boorman

I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in painting and decorating and then taking the occasional acting job as…

— Charley Boorman

I remember taking a 4x4 up the Sani Pass in South Africa, which goes up into Lesotho. It's a dangerous hairpin trail…

— Charley Boorman

All kids love bikes and cars. But there was a guy in my local village, Tony, who gave me a go on…

— Charley Boorman

He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody's voice. My sister Katrine was walking past one day and could hear our…

— Charley Boorman

You hear stories about the horror crashes of the Dakar Rally, which is a long 16-day race, and about people getting lost…

— Charley Boorman

Everyone needs a bit of adrenalin in their lives.

— Charley Boorman

You need to put yourselves in places where adventure can find you.

— Charley Boorman

I customise and build motorbikes and I can fix them myself.

— Charley Boorman

There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

Lee Marvin was my godfather and a very close friend of my father's. My father directed the very successful 'Point Blank' in…

— Charley Boorman

Whenever I get home the house becomes messy and chaotic. Kinvara, my daughter, said, 'Mummy, do you like it when Daddy is…

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map - the distances look like…

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

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

— Charley Boorman

I found I was being pushed to one side and I was being ear-marked as being thick, which is a very damaging…

— Charley Boorman

It's very rare that you get that period of time to hang out with your best buddy and ride motorbikes.

— Charley Boorman

I have a permanent moustache so I can be a 'Movator:' I take random telephone numbers and ring people up and 'movate'…

— Charley Boorman

Often dyslexic kids will excel in being a little bit mischievous or tying to find attention in other ways because they're not…

— Charley Boorman