Sarah Goldberg Quotes

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

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

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

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

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

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

Acting is always therapeutic.

I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

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

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.

Actors, when they're older, still get a chance to let off steam or something and work things off on stage.

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

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.

Singing in character you can be more of a show off or more modest because it isn't yourself it's a nice way to sing, unusual, a bit like being in musical I guess.

When you act, you take on the attitudes and the emotions of others. There has to be a release. Most often done in conviviality. That's why there are clubs like the Players, the Friars - in London, the Garrick.