Brie Larson Quotes

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.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

As much as it's been difficult to tell my story over and over again, it has been the best thing that has ever happened to me.

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

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.