Benji Madden Quotes

Horse racing is animated roulette.

I grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.

I'm a pro-horserace guy.

When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Then we went across the line, and I was like 'Oh my god, we just won the Melbourne Cup.'

I've never watched a race live from Ascot. I used to make sure I didn't miss Black Caviar run, but that wasn't at Ascot.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

My favorite Saturday, outside any Saturday that Louisiana State University plays football, is the Kentucky Derby.

I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn't really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.

The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold their hand. If they then try to kiss you and you don't like it, you can push them over. If your aunty gives you a Christmas present that you're not too keen on, you can throw it back in her face and burst into tears. You can gallop freely. You can skip. Children have got it right. The tragedy is, none of this is permissible as an adult. Although one thing surely is – and I'll bet you know what I'm going to say – that's right, the galloping. Such fun!