Matt Berry Quotes

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

My goal is to generate more material for myself.

Don't waste the time you do have.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

I'm always working on new projects.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.

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.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.