Ellen Pompeo Quotes

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

I do find acting cathartic.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

Acting is therapeutic.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

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

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.

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

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Part of my therapy is to write.