Cristela Alonzo Quotes

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

Got an issue, get a tissue.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

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.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.