Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
Acting the arts in general is a magnet for the wounded of society.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
