I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.
From 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, and you have to remember that.
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
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.
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.
Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.
The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.
Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.
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