Karl Pilkington Quotes

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

Football is a great place to get away from things, and going over to Greece was amazing and I've loved it - it is basically getting away from all the talk.

When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

We in middle age require adventure.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.