Peyton List Quotes

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

Music is my release.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.