Olesya Rulin Quotes

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.

I honed my craft in the military, because it's the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music - being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off - was essential. If I didn't have that, I probably would've lost my mind.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

When I uploaded my very first video, I was just looking for something to make me happy. I was confused about what I was doing in my life and had earned a degree that I didn't really enjoy. With that video, I was finally doing something I was passionate about. So it was my way of self-medicating.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing.

As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it's always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.

I threw myself into the only thing I ever felt passionate about, the only thing that has ever saved my life, which is YouTube.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

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 feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.