Alex Borstein Quotes

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it's been my therapy - my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

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

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I do find acting cathartic.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Acting is therapeutic.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

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.

Music is my release.