Bob Saget Quotes

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I love to cry. It's great.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

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 don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

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

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.