Karl Pilkington Quotes

There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

My stuff isn't for everyone.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others ... The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.