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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
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Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Broomhill & Sharrow Vale Ward
Michael Edward Palin
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I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
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Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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