Quotes from Charley Boorman

No-one's ever satisfied.

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

Era difícil não comparar aquela região com a Mongólia. Assim como os pastores mongóis, as tribos de peles-vermelhas das Grandes Planícies tinham sido nómadas, vivendo em tendas e seguindo as manadas de búfalos para encontrar pastagens para os seus animais. A única diferença era que esse estilo de vida ainda existe na Mongólia enquanto que aqui os brancos tinham impedido os índios de o fazer.

Olhei para a fotografia da minha filha colada na parte de dentro do para-brisas e pensei na minha família. Há apenas quatro semanas que estava ausente, mas sentia imenso a falta dela e desejei tê-la comigo neste instante. Não podia imaginar como seria uma pessoa ter de se afastar dos filhos para procurar uma vida melhor sem saber se voltaria a vê-los.

Primeiro, uma noite passada no meio de gente armada a beber vodka e, agora, pelos vistos, eu era a primeira pessoa a entrar na antiga União Soviética a fazer acrobacias numa mota. Viva a Rússia!

O Tarot que ela me lançou não revelou grande coisa, apenas que tinha uma longa viagem pela frente e que sentia a falta da minha família. Parvina predisse igualmente que um membro da nossa equipa perderia dinheiro, mas tais revelações não provinham certamente do além.

Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.

Ewan McGregor and I ate a lot of strange things on our motorcycle journey around the world, but the strangest had to be a meal we had in Mongolia.

You need to channel your inner dog: know when you need food and when you need rest. And if you get stressed, know when you need to go walkies.

The thing about Mongolia is that it's incredibly difficult to grow vegetables there, so mostly we ate muttony stews.

You need to put yourselves in places where adventure can find you.

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.

The experience of riding an electric bike is very different. Because there was no engine noise and no big vibration coming from the bike, it wasn't as stressful.

If you're dyslexic I think it's very important to know that you can do anything you want and it's not simply because you're dyslexic that you should be shoved on the side.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

On the whole, GPS is fine but you still need maps because the information available can be different to what's on the ground. You need to be vigilant for obstacles.

All kids love bikes and cars. But there was a guy in my local village, Tony, who gave me a go on a bike. My first proper motorbike was when I was about 12, but I'd ridden on his and he was the one who really got me into bikes.

Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.

I always wonder who people are when I meet them; where they live, how they get home from work and little things like that.