Colin Mochrie Quotes

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.

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

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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.

I love smashing stuff.

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

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.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

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

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.