Jenny Holzer Quotes

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

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

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

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

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.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

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 have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.