Motorcycle Quotes: Ride On & Find Your Freedom

"I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it"

Walter Salles, Director

"You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation"

Alex Cox, Director

"Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there"

Bob Seger, Musician

"I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster"

Chuck Zito, Celebrity

"So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration"

Chuck Zito, Celebrity

"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform"

Mike Farrell, Actor

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs"

Alexei Sayle, Comedian

"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country"

Dennis Hopper, Actor

"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang"

Ronnie Hawkins, Musician

"You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium"

Mary Kay Blakely

"Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

"You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything"

David R. Ellis, Director

"Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian