Jason Robards Quotes

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

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

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

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

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

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

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

I like playing characters in the real world.

I like it all. I love getting inside of people's heads and playing what drives people and what makes them do what they do. That's always been what's most interesting to me about being an actor. The analyzing of what's happening, but even more so, just letting it all go and playing is fun. I love just seeing what comes out of you.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I save the rage for the stage.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

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

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.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

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

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