Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe. "
Michael Palin
Will
Country
Safe
Related Quotes:
" Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. "
Michael Palin
World
People
Diversity
" You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to. "
Michael Palin
Immigration
People
You
" I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking. "
Michael Palin
World
Me
Myself
" I will die, but not retire. "
Michael Palin
Die
Retire
Will
" 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
Window
Curiosity
Looking
" There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes. "
Michael Palin
Ego
Nothing
Think
" Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally. "
Michael Palin
Love
Acting
More
" I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group. "
Michael Palin
Result
Lucky
Group
" When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through. "
Michael Palin
Down
Trying
My Own
" 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
Food
Art
Great
" I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong. "
Michael Palin
Motivation
Myself
Think
" Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great. "
Michael Palin
Paid
Just
Being
" 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
Village
Mind
Leaving
" I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. "
Michael Palin
Think
You
Art
" I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong. "
Michael Palin
Adventure
Now
Strong
" 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
People
Over
Me
" So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me. "
Michael Palin
People
Me
Story
" The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing. "
Michael Palin
Down
Human
Race
" If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it. "
Michael Palin
Rock
Practice
Pink
" I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start. "
Michael Palin
You
Start
Sometimes
" 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
Somebody
Out
Find
" Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place. "
Michael Palin
Travel
Home
Marriage
" I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble. "
Michael Palin
World
Great
Reputation
" Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'. "
Michael Palin
People
Be Different
Famous
" I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself. "
Michael Palin
You
Love
Woman
" I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like. "
Michael Palin
Know
People
Talking
" When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.' "
Michael Palin
Myself
Life
Sometimes
" I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. "
Michael Palin
Modern
Now
Some
" I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely. "
Michael Palin
Voice
Bad
Flower
" There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world. "
Michael Palin
People
World
Walk