Karl Pilkington quotes - page 9

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. (Karl Pilkington)
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax. (Karl Pilkington)
I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
Karl Pilkington
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
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It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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I mean, I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
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It's like a pylon. It's like a pylon.
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