Colin Mochrie Quotes

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

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.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

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

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I keep finding good stories so I don't see a reason not to work.

I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.

Free time is the enemy of progress

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.