Words matter. These are the best Matt Berry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not going to do anything that I don’t think is very funny, even if it’s a lot of money or massive exposure.
When you come to the end of a TV project, it’s good to be able – and I’m kind of lucky – that I can just go into a different medium, make another album, or do whatever.
When ‘Toast’ got on Netflix, I noticed a difference. It was something I thought that only myself and a few people would find funny, and suddenly it’s on a very large platform. Now it kind of belongs to everyone.
I’d tell my teenage self he did the right thing never getting a proper job.
I find the fact that my voice has been heard all over the world more insane than anything else.
My uncle used to take me out at night shooting rabbits.
Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.
When I do a voiceover now, there are always a few people I’ve borrowed bits off, whether it’s their hats or facial hair, who’ll say: ‘That’s so funny; it’s obviously based on this guy.’ You think, ‘It ain’t: it’s you.’ Actors never think characters are based on them.
I am quite shy.
If you’re a thoughtful person, you won’t want to be in people’s faces all the time.
The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn’t the sort of thing that I’m into: it’s kind of too uptempo and jaunty for me. I prefer a bit of atmosphere and a bit of darkness.
The only reason I’m associated with ‘the Boosh’ is because Richard Ayoade, who was meant to be doing Bainbridge, couldn’t do it because of something with Channel 4, so I ended up doing it.
I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes’ first album – that’s quite an odd one.
Everyone in our family just kind of leans on my mum.
I find comedy fun, and I really enjoy doing music.
A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He’s creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it’s a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.
I think there’s a chance that aliens might just see us as beef cattle, so that’s us done. Whether they would inhabit us in that way is pretty fanciful because they’d probably just get from us what they could, and then I just see us as fast food.
Make sure you own a good bed and a good pair of shoes because if you’re not in one, you’re in the other.
If your catchphrase has appeared in men’s toilets, then you know you’ve made it!
It’s a different world: when I’m writing ‘Toast,’ I’ve got one foot in 1974 and one foot in the modern day, because the modern day is nowhere near as funny or interesting.
Yes, I performed at the Secret Policeman’s Ball at Radio City Music Hall and loved every minute.
I’m not making comedy albums. That’s too much effort for one joke.
I don’t watch much TV.
Oh God, I’ve done telesales. It doesn’t get much lower than that, really. That’s the job I enjoyed the least.
Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They’re inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.
A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.
I didn’t have any plan to go into comedy.
When I was a student, I couldn’t afford anything.
If you’re bored and you look bored, that’s your fault.
While I’ve got all my arms and legs and my eyes working at the same time, I’ve got to make as much stuff as I can.
I still believe that the best art – be it music, comedy, painting, etc. – is the art that hasn’t been asked for, or is expected.
If it’s funny or it’s good, then yeah, I’ll do it. Whether it’s big-screen or whatever wouldn’t be the deciding factor for me.
I can’t think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I’ve already lost interest in.
What I love about ‘Toast’ is that there’s always new stuff you can do with him.
I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I’d probably say I was an artist due to the fact that I enjoy working within the arts on different platforms, of which comedy is just one.
I didn’t know how interested I was in performing until I did ‘Darkplace.’ I hadn’t done anything really up until that point. I didn’t mind the cameras, and I didn’t know that I would enjoy it.
A lot of actors do that – they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.
I don’t like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven’t gone their way in life.
When I realise that I don’t have a lot of time left to do what I’m meant to do in terms of buying things, that’s when things begin to feel Christmassy for me – when I realise that time is against me, and I’ve got to act; otherwise, I’ll look ridiculous.
I wasn’t interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn’t stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn’t read music, so I wasn’t allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one’s interested in a 16-year-old boy who’s interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.
