Michael Palin Quotes
Top 51 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Palin
Michael Palin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought ... I thought ... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!