Lindsey Haun Quotes

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 really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

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

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

I started writing to save my life.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

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

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

I write to give myself strength.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill. However, everyone is always looking for the Jill in everything.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I do find acting cathartic.