Richard Hammond Quotes

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

I'm a total petrolhead. My three brothers and I used to ride scrambling bikes in the field near where we lived. We all liked cars. I've always loved the smell of an engine.

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.

I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

Our dad is not one to impart advice or gloat or reminisce about the good old days. But he's a race car guy, been a car guy forever, and he always wants to talk about cars.

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.

Usually the casting process is lengthy and humiliating, but in this instance, The Ghost Writer, it was just too easy. I was sitting in a rental car on an L.A. street and my cell phone rang, and it was Roman Polanski on the line. I couldn't really believe my luck. He said, "See you in Berlin." I sat staring at a palm tree, thinking how surreal that was.

Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.