Karl Pilkington Quotes

• I’ve got loads of nieces and nephews.

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• I’m not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn’t really changed.

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• I’d say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they’re meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

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• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don’t quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there’s awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don’t televise it. I don’t know why they do it for films or TV programs.

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• I mean, I don’t really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

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• I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that’s all you can do in life, really.

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• I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn’t wait to get off the stage.

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• I don’t watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that’s in there.

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• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla’s just sat there doing nowt.

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• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you’re seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that’s added gives you a certain feeling.

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• Comedy’s really subjective, you know.

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• But I’m not an idiot. At the end of the day, I’ve learned a lot.

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• And we’ve got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

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• A slug is always on its own. It’s a lonely insect.

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Karl Pilkington (34)

Birth:	23rd September, 1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Producer

About

Karl Pilkington is an English television and radio personality, travel show presenter, author, actor, and former radio producer. He gained prominence as the producer of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's radio programme on XFM. He appeared on The Ricky Gervais Show, presented the Sky travel series An Idiot Abroad, and made his full acting debut on Gervais' 2012 comedy-drama series Derek. Pilkington is a co-founder, along with Gervais and Merchant, of RiSK Productions, a television production company.

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