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
years restless-mind leaving
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
people i-can seems
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
blessed careers two
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.
people one-day saws
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
retiring dies
I will die, but not retire.
character people useless
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.
groups large-groups
I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
nice mean sound
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
crazy believe python
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
stupid people spur-of-the-moment
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
finding-yourself sometimes
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
goodbye saying-goodbye difficult
One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.
religion atheism littles
In the absence of fear there is little faith.
atheist men religion
If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.