The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you’re like, ‘Isn’t that lovely?’ and then you see your own name on one – that isn’t a taxi driver’s! I was very impressed.
I am the driver. I am the owner, kind of the sponsor, except for our sponsorship with Dodge.
I think 19 years, what I’ve done, you see nowadays people get there with money and so on, but they last one or two years. To be able to have lasted that long, it’s still impressive for me. I had a blast being a Formula 1 driver.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.
When I didn’t retain the world title after my first win, which no one’s ever done, I was gutted and made my driver take me home straight away. We travelled through the night, and I didn’t say a word all the way from Sheffield to South Queensferry.
I always think you can tell a lot about a person by how they talk to their cab driver.
I just don’t like to drive. I’m not a bad driver, I just don’t like to drive.
It would be meaningful if ‘Taxi Driver’ were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.
My grandma’s the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she’s doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that’s sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there’s a potential for an environmental disaster.
When you are a kid racing karts, you want to be an F1 driver.
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
At its core, I don’t view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver’s license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it’s very well positioned.
Pressure is always a part of a racing driver’s life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.
When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver’s test. It was a very good year!
Not only do I not drive, I don’t have my driver’s license; there’s a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
It’s amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.
I believe there is room in the market for a daily driver that embodies all the attributes of the best track racing car and the comfort of a luxurious sports car.
No driver is perfect.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
It was my first time taking a taxi with Mason. I had to tell the driver to wait because I had to get the stroller out of the car.
Forget the stress of trying to find a taxi while you freeze. Ubers make you feel like you have a personal driver… a luxury!
I am a racer. I’m not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That’s what I do. I don’t go on vacations. I don’t take my family on vacations because I don’t have a family. My family is the racing family.
For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the driver’s seat. Now it’s more of an overall solution: How can technology make your life better? How can it save you time?
Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
As a racing driver, you’re representing a brand and your appearance is part of your job. But there’s a fine line between being feminine and creating attention on yourself because of what you’re wearing.
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver’s license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
A good driver can make up for bad equipment way more than a good car could make up for a bad driver.
I’ve got my hands in every aspect of the NASCAR world, not only as the part time race car driver but as the full time TV guy and race team owner.
As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn’t very realistic.
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I’m retired and I am very happy.
The 24 is just legendary, it’s kind of like the 3 with Dale Earnhardt Sr. where everybody knows the rainbow 24 DuPont Chevrolet. It is just a very recognizable car, driver, just a legendary team.
I saw ‘Taxi Driver,’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, ‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Who the hell else are you talkin’ to?’ That’s the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.
I admire the older ladies who carry on working. Look at Betty Driver on ‘Coronation Street’ – she’s incredible.
If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they’re on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they’re going to do?
As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
My top goal as your Secretary of State is to save lives by reducing fatal traffic crashes. When I established the Teen Driver Safety Task Force, the goal was to improve Illinois’ graduated driver licensing law and, even more importantly, to save lives.
We were in love with ‘Mean Streets’ and ‘Taxi Driver.’ We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
Here’s the facts: We’ve got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver’s license to drive.
Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.
The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.
We operate in a world where you can have a package from Amazon arrive on your doorstep the same day; where Uber has a private driver at your front door within minutes; but when it comes to Congress, it takes three weeks for someone to get a form letter response to his or her questions.
I mean, when I was growing up, my family was always into racing. So, we’d always have the TV on on Sundays watching the Cup races or whatever, and ultimately I kinda thought about wanting to become a race car driver. I thought it would be cool to get paid to do what you love to do most.
I’ve always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just… there’s that expectation where you walk into a room, and it’s like, Is it OK to be a woman?’ Or, you know, you’re looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you’ve had a lobotomy.
Personally, I would really like the entire production staff of Taxi Driver,’ and all the characters including prosecutor Kang Ha Na, to come back together and continue the stories of Rainbow Taxi.
Obviously, it is good to have competitiveness in the team and that urge to want to beat the driver next to you, but at the same time, I think we are gonna respect each other.
Restoring the people’s voice in Congress is not just one part of our Better Way agenda, it’s the most important part. Unless people are back in the driver’s seat, we won’t be able to rebuild our military, roll back the red tape, or help our most vulnerable.
I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver’s permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like ‘Hold On! I’m Comin” and ‘Knock on Wood’ and ‘Midnight Hour.’
The way that I play is, I’m in the driver’s seat.
You have faith in who you are as a driver and stay strong when things go wrong.
We’re very proud of our cultural life. Culture is to London what the sun is to Spain. It’s a major driver for our tourism.
We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there’s a lot of stuff that I didn’t do, but there’s a lot of really incredible things that I don’t think we’ve ever seen an actor do.
