Michael Palin
Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and later made a number of travel documentaries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth5 May 1943
CityBroomhill, England
real successful track
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.
skills world analysis
Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!
strong adventure years
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
thinking order ego
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.
notebook eye trying
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.
country people meals
You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.
queens fall night
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
running people competition
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
years two parent
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
country world safe
There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
acting enjoy please
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
believe diversity people
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.
religious believe creating
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
curiosity world window
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.