Chris Zylka Quotes

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

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

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.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

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.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

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.