Dennis Haysbert Quotes

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

Music stops you from thinking.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.