Kerry King Quotes

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Acting is therapeutic.

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.