Karl Pilkington Quotes

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I quite like being old.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Few people know how to be old.

My life is better with every year of living it.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.