120 Quotes by James May

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.

'Top Gear''s popularity is a complete mystery to me. Maybe it's because it's still a car programme, but it's turned into a distorted world view from three men; a world view through the windscreen.

I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.

Nice girls at school whose fathers owned a Volvo were unapproachable and probably condemned to spinsterhood for all time, simply because no one had the courage to advance up the drive.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

A lot of television assumes the viewer is a bit daft, and I don't think they are.