Erland Josephson Quotes

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Working is a great distraction technique.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

I think that's part of my evolution: realizing that I can say 'no' to things, even when I'm faced with that lull that comes between projects, and I get anxious because I feel like I need to be constantly working.

I don't worry about stress. I create it.

There are days when you are busy even without having work as you are going for auditions. So you are not acting in a way. To sustain yourself mentally, physically, emotionally is challenging for sure.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

The anxiety I get more when I'm not working. So actually work, for me, takes away my anxiety, and doing live TV, in that moment when you're consumed by something else, it takes away all of my thoughts. It distracts you!

It doesn't behoove you as an actor to sit around and worry.

I have to do stand-up. I have to do something comedy-involved every day, or else I will lose my mind.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.

Even though running is work for me, I always miss it if I take a break. A lot of people find running relaxing, but I can never switch off from timing and competing against myself.

I work better under pressure.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

When I was younger, I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I see I have to take the initiative and practise to improve myself.

It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn't know where the next run was coming from.

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.