Michael Palin Quotes

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

I love domestic life.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

I am not the kind of person who won't get married because of my career, because there was nothing great happening in my career anyway.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

I'd like to have a family.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.