Quotes About Performance

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

Acting is therapeutic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren't doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early '80s when everyone else thought it was crazy.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.