Cathartic Quotes - page 2

A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had. (Darren Boyd)
Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls. View quote
Ellen Pompeo
For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience. View quote
Finn Jones
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. View quote
Eamonn Walker
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. View quote
Nic Pizzolatto
I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic. View quote
Rachel Nichols
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. View quote
Richard Helms
The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way. View quote
Sharon Van Etten
A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?' View quote
Sherri Shepherd
The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment. View quote
Charlie Huston
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. View quote
Alanis Morissette
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. View quote
Brian Molko
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
Solemnity, I don't know what it's for. I mean, what is the point of it? The two most beautiful memorial services that I've ever attended both had a lot of humor. It somehow freed us all and made the services inspiring and cathartic. But solemnity, it serves pomposity. The self important always know at some level of their consciousness that their egotism is going to be punctured by humor. That's why they see it as a threat! And so, dishonestly, they pretend that their deficiency makes their views more substantial. View quote
John Cleese
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival. View quote
Trent Reznor
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Tart, cathartic virtue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue. View quote
Dhani Harrison
Maybe those inclined towards the arts are so spiritually retarded to a degree that we must go through the whole process of cathartic expression just to discover how we really feel. View quote
Mark Heard
But every time I look at myself and think, oh, my body's not OK or my worth in value are determined by my appearance and my marketability, I'm kind of engaging in one form of this same narrative. So writing this work has been really cathartic and humbling for me. (Sarah Jones (stage actress))
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. View quote
Aldous Huxley