Natascha McElhone Quotes

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I fit a lot into my days.

I don't want to just make music. My only problem is that there are 24 hours in a day and that I have one of me.

Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

I wish I could do 50 projects a year.

If I had my way, I want to do 15 films in a year, but I have realised I cannot physically do that.

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.