Laurence Fox Quotes

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

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

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

Acting is always therapeutic.

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.

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

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

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for the viewer as well.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.