Therapeutic Quotes

I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. I think all the courage that I may lack personally, I have as an actor.

(On what satisfaction he gets as an actor) What do I get out of it at the end of the day? Money. I get to travel around to different places. I get--for 10 to 12 hours a day--to not really be me. It`s great escapism. It can be very fucking therapeutic. But it`s not something that`s immediately satisfying. Sure, it`s satisfying when a film you`re in breaks $300 million at the box office, and the next thing is you get a $5 million offer, and there are awards flying about the place. But more often it`s not. Every so often someone comes up and says, "Hey, I saw you in that movie. It was great!" And I`m like, "Yeah, thanks very much." And that`s where the satisfaction comes in.

It makes me feel a bit naked and vulnerable, but I think that`s part of being true to yourself and committing to your music. It`s therapeutic too going to the studio everyday is like lying on a therapist couch. I`m very comfortable around cattle. I can ride a horse alright. I can collect eggs and I can clean out a pigsty!"

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

(about his preference for being nude when at home) There`s something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levis and we`re all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don`t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I love gardening. I think it`s very therapeutic when you`re having a bad day.

I just don`t talk about who I`m going out with, that`s it. It`s an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it`s kind of therapeutic in a way.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

I have a great deal of fun playing Blade. The lifestyle of it, the controlled rebelliousness, is wonderful to me. And it`s therapeutic, too. A role like this lets you vent.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

(Phillips then made what should be the definitive argument against granting Hinckley more time off campus. While the presidential assailant may appear to be free of the demons that caused him to shoot four people in a therapeutic setting, there is really no proof that he has been cured.) His approach, potential infatuation and stalking-like behavior are historical problems, ... His interests with the female staff has been of great concern to the treatment staff ... . He is not cured. He is in recovery, in remission.

We`re pleased to extend our collaboration which combines our strengths in analyzing and understanding genetic variation associated with multiple common diseases with Merck`s extensive knowledge of the biology underlying neurodegenerative diseases and its global leadership in the development of innovative therapeutics. This target validation program is one example of the value we`re able to provide our therapeutic partners worldwide; other examples include identifying individuals who may benefit most from early therapeutic treatment and predict those individuals who will best respond to new therapies.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Compliance is a critical problem, ... and now you have a therapeutic entity that allows two medications to be delivered simultaneously, that`s going to improve compliance. And if people are compliant, of course they will then begin to see improvement.

So far, no scientist has been able to specifically turn any adult stem cell population into good populations of motor-neuron cells. Remember that ALS patients tend to die within four years. Opponents of therapeutic cloning need to remember that we do not have time to waste.

(He said) therapeutic cloning, ... creating human life for the purpose of exploiting it and a lot of people have ethical problems with that.

One of the potential side-effects of drugs to treat ADHD is insomnia. Therefore, for some, the additional use of medications to assist in sleeping is something one might anticipate, ... The number of people in our analysis that have concomitant use in these two therapeutic classes is significant and warrants continued research, especially since these two conditions are accelerating at similar rates and among similar demographic audiences.

There`s something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.