Michael Palin Quotes

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.