Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
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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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A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
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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.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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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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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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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.
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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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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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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
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It's like a pylon.