Anthony Mackie Quotes

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it's been my therapy - my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

I've got a horrible bastard side. I get to let it go every time I go in the gym.

I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.