Words matter. These are the best Chris Harris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I know a lot about cars.
I’m not great with heights.
If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you’re in your mid-40s and you can’t land the way you used to, so it’s great fun.
Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don’t get many offers of work other than ‘Top Gear,’ because I’m crap at everything else.
The big picture, for me, having grown up with ‘Top Gear,’ is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution.
Top Gear’ is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.
We call chemistry the ‘c’ word on ‘Top Gear,’ and you can’t fake that, can you?
Top Gear’ is the thing that helped shape my life with cars, my perception of cars and my obsession with cars, and I’m raring to give it a go. I’m also quite gobby and happy to get into trouble, so I’m hoping I can underpin the programme with journalistic credibility but still cause some mischief.
Top Gear’ is all about the cars. We’ve got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.
Most cars are comfortable until you are about 6’3′ or 4.
People have short memories.
The ecstasy of driving a new Ferrari is now almost always eradicated by the pain of dealing with the organisation.
Matt LeBlanc thinks his own jokes are funny which is problematic when you’re driving along – he expects you to laugh and often they’re not funny.
Rory… well Rory likes winning. No one has ever won with less grace than Rory Reid.
People think the future is all about being green and clean. It’s going to produce the fastest cars the world has ever seen. It is going to be incredible, it is going to be a speed fest.
I don’t think you’d trust Mary Berry if you found out she couldn’t bake a cake.
If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the systems and everything else to communicate with each other. But in an electric car, it’s much simpler.
You set yourself a nice problem when you’re faced with: ‘Is our show too exciting? How do we make it even more exciting?’
There’s no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.
We don’t want to damage cars. People work hard and save money to buy these things.
I’m not really interested in people. I just like messing around in cars.
To generate positive creative friction, you need people who’ll tell you ‘No.’
Sometimes you just have to do stupid things because you want to do stupid things.
I had a full 11/10, out of body of moment when I drove the Ferrari FXX K. That woke me up proper sideways.
The one thing I’m a firm believer in is that cars are the best thing to be around on television. They are exciting. They’re fun. They elicit emotions. They can take you on adventures. They can make you laugh, make you cry. They’re the best medium.
Top Gear’ reflects the behaviour of the motorist in the U.K.
A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.
I’m not really into houses, well other than I’d just like to have somewhere to live.
Top Gear,’ for entirely understandable reasons, started to focus on its international status because it was selling so well in international territories.
You think you can drive accurately in confined spaces until someone puts something like a shipping container in the way and you suddenly think: ‘I’m going to hit that.’
You have to learn where people’s funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.
I don’t know much about football but I know when Alex Ferguson retired this guy called Moys came in and he was doomed to fail. He could have been the best manager in the world, but karma tells you that after that prolonged success you’re always going to have problems.
We like to be involved vaguely in the creative process so we know what’s going on and we have some input, but actually, ‘Top Gear’ is at its best when the producers spring something on you and we respond naturally to it. The more you know, the less realistic your reactions.
Doing ‘Top Gear’ is absolutely wicked!
People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to ‘Top Gear’ 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn’t there, it took time to grow.
