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“No-one's ever satisfied.”
“I'm a traveller, I love to travel.”
“My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn the lines and the thought of doing theatre terrified me. What if I forgot my lines in the middle of a scene with an entire audience watching?”
“You need to put yourselves in places where adventure can find you.”
“He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody's voice. My sister Katrine was walking past one day and could hear our dad shouting and thought, 'God, I won't go in that room!' but realised it was Nicol Williamson mimicking my father's voice perfectly.”
“I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.”
“When I was on the motorbike in the Dakar Rally I had a lot of time to think.”
“Long Way Round' was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.”
“Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.”
“I have a permanent moustache so I can be a 'Movator:' I take random telephone numbers and ring people up and 'movate' them to grow moustaches.”
“I remember taking a 4x4 up the Sani Pass in South Africa, which goes up into Lesotho. It's a dangerous hairpin trail on this treacherous road and I went up in winter. Half of the road stays in the shade. We turned the corner on this hairpin and just hit black ice.”
“Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.”
“We have a Mercedes Viano, which is a sort of posh people carrier. I told my wife I bought it for the kids, but the real reason is that I can put my dirt bikes and a mattress in the back, then get out of London for the weekend.”
“Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.”
“The thing about Mongolia is that it's incredibly difficult to grow vegetables there, so mostly we ate muttony stews.”
“Get on to social media and ask questions about the areas you're going to. You'll be surprised at the amount of responses from people who want you to experience some of the amazing things they discovered themselves.”
“It's very difficult to say what experience was the hardest. 'Long Way Round' was the first one, so we didn't know anything.”
“Dad wanted me to act because it was a clever way of boosting my confidence.”
“I think it's really important for people to have a passion... a hobby... riding horses or climbing or riding motorcycles or whatever it is. It's very good for the soul. And if you can find a soulmate with whom you can share similar experiences with... one who enjoys them as much as you do, then it's kind of a match made in heaven really.”
“Always bring a pack of baby wipes with you.”