Rowan Atkinson Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

• I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Car, Wish

• Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always driven, or he takes the train, or he gets the bus. I was saying 'Well, why don't we ring the changes for the 21st Century, and stick him in the car?'. [Executive Producer and son of the author, John Simenon] said, 'Well, you can if you want, but there'll be lots of people who won't like it'. So he's a non-driver ... But no, Top Gear was never a consideration for me; and neither was I asked

  Rowan Atkinson

  Son, Frustration, Car

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

• I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Car, Toys, Causes

  "Britain's biggest ever repair bill: Insurers fork out £910k to fix Mr Bean comedian's McLaren supercar" by Vicky Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2013.

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