Matt Berry Quotes

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I write, but I also act.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I entertain for a living, and I entertain.

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.