Sally Field Quotes

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

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 think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.