Michael Palin Quotes

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.

I Saw Novelists As Being Admirable People And I Thought... I Thought... Maybe, One Day, I Could Be One Of Them.

People Are Still Crazy About Python After Twenty-five Years, Which I Find Hard To Believe.

There Is Barely A Country In The World Where You Will Be Completely Safe.

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.

I Am Certainly More Interested In Interviewing Than Being Interviewed. Sometimes You Find Yourself Attacked From The Start.

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.

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.

First Shalt Thou Take Out The Holy Pin. Then Shalt Thou Count To Three, No More-no Less. Three Shall Be The Number Thou Shalt Count, And The Number Of The Counting Shall Be Three. Four Shalt Thou Not Count, Neither Count Thou Two, Excepting That Thou Then Proceed To Three. Five Is Right Out. Once The Number Three, Being The Third Number, Be Reached, Then Lobbest Thou Thy Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch Towards Thy Foe, Who, Being Naughty In My Sight, Shall Snuff It.

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.

Please Don't Ask Which I Enjoy More - Acting Or Hosting - Because I Love Them Equally.

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?