Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarksonis an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for co-presenting the BBC TV show Top Gear with Richard Hammond and James May from October 2002 to March 2015. He also writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth11 April 1960
CityDoncaster, England
fall men oil
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
moving elderly highways
There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.
car use offensive
When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.
thinking car special
You're a car, but most of all, what you are, what you've become, is a mate. And that's what makes a car special. That's what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.
people house three
If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?
country order office
We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.
country war men
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.
fear men suffering
Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?
children hate my-children
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.
men differences feminist
Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.
people top-gear poor
I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?
car people audi
Then there’s the biggest problem of them all – the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but that’s a fact and there’s nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you aren’t called Angela, you have the wrong car.
important looking-good
Looking good in Italy is even more important than looking where you're going.
mother children dirt
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?