Sarah Shahi Quotes

Acting is therapeutic.

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

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.

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

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

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.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through the writing and different directors that came in, and I evolved as an actress and human being, and I really created a circle of friends who helped shape me who I am today.

It's a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it's also rare to play someone that teaches you something.

The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's fun to do that in life as well. But I don't think I ever played myself.

I think it's quite common for actors to almost rely on their characters to exercise parts of themselves in their regular life they don't tend to explore so much.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

Every role that one does - at least, that's what happens in my case - becomes a sort of therapy.

Doing 'Roadies' was a big release for me. I play this character named Wes who's the most pure, innocent form of who I was when I was eighteen searching for something.

I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

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 don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

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 didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.