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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? — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. — Michael Palin

When in doubt, resort to animation. — Michael Palin

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. — Michael Palin

My marriage has worked because I am not around much. — Michael Palin

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. — Michael Palin

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute. — Michael Palin

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe. — Michael Palin

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. — Michael Palin

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought ... I thought ... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future — Michael Palin

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. — Michael Palin

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? — John Cleese

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. — Michael Palin

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

I will die, but not retire. — Michael Palin

In the absence of fear there is little faith. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead. — Michael Palin

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. — Michael Palin

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!! — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally. — Michael Palin

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh — Michael Palin

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that. — Michael Palin

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. — Michael Palin

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

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 — Michael Palin

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man. — Michael Palin

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. — Michael Palin

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start. — Michael Palin

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder. — Michael Palin

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet. — Michael Palin

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye. — Michael Palin

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me. — Michael Palin

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive. — Michael Palin

Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great. — Michael Palin

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. — Michael Palin

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. — Michael Palin

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! — Michael Palin

It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker! — Michael Palin

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'. — Michael Palin