Lindsay Wagner Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.

I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

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.

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

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I started writing to save my life.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

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

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I do find acting cathartic.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.