120 Quotes by James May

I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.

I very briefly had a microwave oven that I quickly gave away, because I could never work out what they do better than a regular oven.

I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I'm pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he's welcome to it. It'll change his life. Mine's only inconvenienced by having to buy another one.

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.

I have never stormed off over money or contracts. I am paid quite well by 'Top Gear.' I am pretty happy, and I have never seen Richard Hammond storm off, either.

I can't see Jeremy Clarkson having very many serious problems in his working life in the long run.

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.