Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Palin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
Actor
Comedian
Diarist
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Broomhill & Sharrow Vale Ward
Michael Edward Palin
Sir Michael Edward Palin
Useless
Accepted
Playing
Quite
Felt
Character
People
Endeared
Incompetent
More quotes by Michael Palin
People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
Michael Palin
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
You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
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
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
Michael Palin
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
I will die, but not retire.
Michael Palin
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
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
Michael Palin
If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.
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
In the absence of fear there is little faith.
Michael Palin
I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
Michael Palin
I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.
Michael Palin
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
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
Michael Palin
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
Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
Michael Palin
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.
Michael Palin
The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
Michael Palin
