I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.
Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.
I have actual acting scars.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
Acting is always therapeutic.
Acting is therapeutic.