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Michael Palin Quotes

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Michael Palin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: May 5, 1943

Topics

Me World Rest Stand Enough Place

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

Joe Dempsie

Time Challenge Day People Look Play

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

Jeph Loeb

Soul School Writing Los Angeles Know

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Jean Rostand

Beautiful Mind Regret Human Keep

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.

Mia Wasikowska

Think First Two Guest Excited Role

It was a dream come true, as in my first film, I have Rajkumar Hirani as the producer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?

Ritika Singh

Better Dream True First Producer

For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.

Mike Schultz

Yourself Balance Stand Up Impact You

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.

Michael Moriarty

Good God Faith American Dream Lose

So much success from set pieces comes from practice. Maybe fans see a well-worked free-kick and think it looks good, but to get that, there has been hours of work that nobody has seen on the training ground.

Diego Godin

Work Success Good Training Practice

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

Drew Barrymore

Smile God Character Angry Mind End

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

Chris Gardner

Racism You New Bigger Get Stuff

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.

Chris LeDoux

Truck Drive Bad Bald Way Air

I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit.

David Thewlis

Live People Think Nice Over Come