Quotes About Understanding

I think the therapeutic part of acting is allowing myself to step into another human being's shoes. It allows me the ability to release judgment, if I had any judgment to begin with. It's an opportunity to understand rather than to stand outside and point fingers.

A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call them up, and we can laugh about it because they get it. That's always been a great therapeutic outlet.

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

I have respect for therapists in general, because they hear so many stories. It's a lot to hold and take in.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

My mother, actually, is a therapist.

I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

I would have loved to have been a psychiatrist or therapist.

I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.

I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy.

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

I have a motherly instinct and I'm always trying to give therapy.

I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.