Richard Rawlings Quotes

I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we're always competitive in it. That's something I've taken a lot of pride in my whole life.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too.

Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.

Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

I have a guy who does my hair. He's a car nut. And he was taking motorcycle lessons. And, what was my point?

It takes a good car for anybody to be good, but it takes a good car and a special driver to achieve greatness.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

My goal in the beginning was to build a lifestyle brand around what I love to do, which is motorcycles and cars. That was our main goal from the very beginning.

We've worked on hundreds of cars and there's always something different so it's hard to get bored of individual vehicles.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.