23 Michael Palin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Michael Palin

British Comedian

Born: May 5, 1943

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

You Travel Experience Trouble Back Later Never Repeat Same Travelling

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

Myself Better Think Everything Crippling High High Standards Part Wrong Look Self-Doubt Got Prove Motivation Done Standards Why

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

Best Writing Think Some Modern Now Travellers

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

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

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins. Michael Palin

People Blessed Say Insatiable Out Find Some About Something Always Been Begins Curiosity Where Cursed Place Might Desire

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied. Michael Palin

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I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate. Michael Palin

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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

Love You Woman People Reading Other Virginia Side Herself Someone More Like She Vulnerable Revelation Diaries Woolf Formidable Shows

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

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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

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

Great Just Being Paid Travelling

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

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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

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

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

People Somalia More Know Looting Than Piracy Want

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