Karl Pilkington

Actor

160 Quotes

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

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.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

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.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Chinese people age overnight.

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

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.

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.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

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