Top 53 Quotes by Michael Palin

About Michael Palin

These are some quotes by British author Michael Palin Comedian, who was born on May 3, 1943.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

Michael Palin

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

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

Michael Palin

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

Michael Palin

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Michael Palin

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.

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

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

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

Michael Palin

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Michael Palin

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Palin

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

Michael Palin

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.

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

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