Michael Palin

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

— Michael Palin

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

— Michael Palin

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity…

— Michael Palin

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared…

— Michael Palin

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing,…

— Michael Palin

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

— Michael Palin

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

— 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…

— Michael Palin

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

— Michael Palin

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

— Michael Palin

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back…

— 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…

— 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…

— Michael Palin

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

— Michael Palin

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

— Michael Palin

There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage…

— Michael Palin

“I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right…

— Michael Palin

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

— Michael Palin

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well,…

— Michael Palin

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

— Michael Palin

“...go all the way to Sun Alliance to Chancery Lane, only to be told that they wouldn't insure my new house because…

— Michael Palin

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

— Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end…

— Michael Palin

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

— Michael Palin

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly…

— Michael Palin