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Jeremy Clarkson quotes from Top Gear

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Jeremy Clarkson

Played by Jeremy Clarkson

Top Gear · 1,774 quotes

Most-quoted character in Top Gear: in 1,331 of its 1,774 quotes
Most scenes with: Richard Hammond (406), James May (323), Stephen Ladyman (5)

Scenes with Jeremy Clarkson 596

[During the Cool Wall segment, Jeremy tries to guess what car people drive from the shoes they wear]

[Camera pans over to a pair of orange leather shoes]

Jeremy

OH MY GOD, WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT-- oh, hello James.

[A little later]

Jeremy

This year a motoring icon is celebrating its fortieth birthday.

Richard Hammond?

Jeremy

No, he's thirty eight. Same as he was last year, and the year before. Mind you, it's his birthday next week, isn't it?

Oh it is actually, then he'll be thirty eight.

Yes, alright, funny, funny.

Jeremy

Thirty eight year old Richard Hammond!

I am! Thank you, very much.

Jeremy

[Croakily] Can I just say...

Ooh, it speaks! Or sort of squeaks.

[Jeremy tries to speak but has trouble]

Ooh, that's just a noise. Are you deflating?

[Jeremy pulls out a bottle and sprays it in his mouth]

What's that? [Reading from the bottle] Synthetic saliva?

Jeremy

It means I just have a few minutes of speaking.

Oh, so you like - you need more saliva? Well ladies and gentlemen I have no doubt we can oblige with that! How do you know it's synthetic and it isn't just some bloke... [Imitates spitting into a bottle] Bottle it!

Jeremy

You can shut up for a kick off as well.

What?

What noise is that you're making?

Jeremy

[Pointing to May] Have you seen his eye? He's got the biggest eye infection I've ever seen. At least I don't look like a mutant.

Has it come to this?! I'm working with these two. This isn't a television program anymore; it's a colony!

Jeremy

I tell you what, instead of hurling abuse at each other, why [coughs] -- excuse me -- why don't we do the news?

[later in the news]

Do you remember Chevrolet in the early Corvettes, they had a little dial that showed you how many revs the engine had done. From new.

Jeremy

Revs?

Revs, yeah.

Jeremy

What, going around at five thousand RPM, be going rrrrr...! It would have to be this... [holds out arms] be wider than the car just to get the dial in!

Well, I worked it out for my old Porsche, actually.

Jeremy

You what?

My old Porsche's twenty five years old -- I worked out it had done 8.4 times ten to the eight (8.4x10^8 = 840 million) revs since...

You worked that out? For -- your -- car? You spent time -- WOW! So you must actually have done everything there is to do in the whole world to get to the bottom of the list of everything a human being can do -- what's it like on the top of Everest? Is it good?

It's alright.

Jeremy

Richard -- I went to a dinner party the other day and I sat next to a girl who said she couldn't believe that James May was still single.

There's your answer!

[on the Riva]

I thought so.

Jeremy

What?

A rev counter.

Jeremy

Yes?

You decadent capitalist pig. Ownership of a rev counter is theft.

Jeremy

Look at the colour. This is the colour of a prosthetic limb.

You've got wipers on your headlights!

Jeremy

They don't work.

That's not the point! It's aspirational!

Jeremy

It's cold, the track's too pockmarked, it's bumpy....now,I'll be driving the Morris Marxist and you shall be in the...what is it?

The Lenin 1.6 SLX.

Jeremy

Lovely. And the winner gets Berlin.

And the loser has to sacrifice his bath plug.

[driving the Niva]

Does this mean we've actually found a Communist car we like?

[the Niva's engine cuts out and Jeremy is unable to re-start it]

Jeremy

No!

[as the Fiesta drives through the surf toward the beach]

Jeremy

Come onnnnn!

RMRoyal Marine

[from the back seat] Are we nearly there yet?

Jeremy

[laughing, to the Marine corporal in the front passenger seat] The kids are being annoying. Shoot them.

[back in the studio with James]

Jeremy

I tried to be fair. I did try, but it was... it didn't work.

It's not good though is it?

Jeremy

No, I think the price will come down, you know once -- what's he called -- Brad Cruise and Leonardo DiClooney. Once they've bought six hundred each, then the price will drop. And I guess once they've made a few of them they'll get better at the reliability.

Well, that's as maybe. But -- and as I aim to demonstrate later on in the show -- battery powered electric cars will soon die altogether.

Jeremy

No, we are looking forward to that film. Well, I am anyway.

Jeremy

Grandparents, if you've got grandkids that like cars, what they like is cars, okay. They don't like towels with car names written on them.

Exactly with this sort of thing you can buy a bottle of red wine for 2.99, 3.99 in the shops. If you get a bottle of red wine with the Alfa Romeo logo on it, it's 15 quid.

Jeremy

Oh I can beat that May. This is an ice scraper OK. It's covered in Santa's pubes, it's got SAAB written on it... £38.50.

What!

Jeremy

It's given us an idea. [produces a plate of vomit, to groans from the audience] See this? It is a plate of sick. Now it is utterly worthless. But if I just pop a BMW badge on it, £13.80.

[produces a false arm clad in a baggy purple sleeve] It does work, this sort of branding. This wizard's sleeve for instance.[Clarkson laughs madly] Absolutely WORTHLESS, but it bears a Ferrari badge. 45 pounds. [Audience pays attention to what James has]

[holds up a fencing foil with a load of sausages speared on it] This pork sword...

No!

Jeremy

James don't do the pork sword! [holds up a stuffed chicken] This cock...

Has it got four rings on it?

Jeremy

Yes it has! Put this cock in your wizard's sleeve

Thank you

Jeremy

It's all gone horribly wrong.

[After testing their V8 rocking chair]

Jeremy

It hasn't worked, because the noise is so great, you'd never hear the television, would you?

That... and the fact that the old lady has disintegrated. Her head's come off!

[Introducing the special from the studio]

Jeremy

Hello and and welcome to a sea of disappointed faces. Because these people have driven all the way down here today only to find the show isn't actually coming from here today.

No, it is in fact coming from six thousand miles away, here [points on map] in Vietnam.

Yes, we were told to meet in the centre of Saigon and await further instructions.

Jeremy

So, sit back, enjoy the ride.

Jeremy

[voiceover] Delighted that for once the producers had been generous, we headed for the showrooms. [out loud] I love having inches of money! [voiceover] But our joy was short lived as James discovered when he tried to buy a bog-standard Fiat 500.

[pointing to car] Can you tell me how much?

SSalesman

Uh, five hun-- five hundred and sixty million Vi?t ??ng.

Five hundred and sixty million?

SSalesman

Yeah

How much is fifteen million ??ng?

SSalesman

Just about one thousand U.S. dollar.

[meeting up after finding the money they've been given isn't in fact worth very much]

Jeremy

I'll tell you the problem, is cars only came to Vietnam a few years ago, ok--four or five years ago? They've got the two hundred percent import tax on them, they haven't had time--in the four or five years since they've been here--to get cheap.

So there are no bangers.

Everything's expensive and we're actually quite poor.

[James gets Jeremy's attention and gestures to the motorbikes behind them]

Jeremy

No.

Go on.

Look around us, what do we see everywhere?

Jeremy

You know I can't do that.

Well what else is there? [pokes box of money] Bet you can get a bike for that!

It's our only option.

Jeremy

I bet you could get a lump of excrement for that as well, it doesn't mean I'm going to go...

It's transport, with an engine. It's the only choice we have.

Come on!

Jeremy

No.

Look, that's all we've got. [Holds up a bundle of money and puts it back in the box] Bikes.

[Jeremy describing his bike without any of the enthusiasm the other presenters have shown]

Jeremy

I've bought this, which is um... a motorcycle.

Well technically, this is a scooter. [picks it up into the upright position]

Jeremy

If you let go now it will just fall over.

No, it's got a thing called a stand!

You really don't know anything about bikes do you? I mean, really...

Jeremy

Nothing.

Tell you what I will say, it's actually very pretty. But it's going to be useless because whatever the challenge is, tiny wheels and looking good--that's not going to help.

Jeremy

Why are tiny wheels wrong?

Because the holes are big and the little wheels go further in.

Jeremy

What holes?

The holes in the road.

So you're going be [wobbly sound] all over the place.

Jeremy

How many cylinders has it got?

JRJames and Richard

One.

Jeremy

One?

It's a two stroke.

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