Robert Carlyle Quotes

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

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

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

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.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

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

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.