Rip Torn Quotes

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

I like to have one car that I can be certain will go. The thing about classic cars is you can't always assume they will go.

I have cared so much and so little about the cars I've owned.

If you have a car, you tune it up; you replace the parts. You try to keep it in good shape. This country has tires that are shot, a bunch of engine problems, and rather than saying, 'Okay, let's maybe put some new parts in here,' we just keep putting gas in and driving forward.

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.

I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.

I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.

I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ever bought. It has 180,000 miles on it, and that is my daily whip. I take that everywhere. Don't forget where you came from, that's why I'll never get rid of that Jeep.

I always drove the crappiest cars out there.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.