Quotes About Escape

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

I love Manchester, but I would like to have a getaway place in Florence.

I love, love, love South Florida.

I grew up in Florida, and I have a lot of friends, close friends, who are Cuban-Americans, and I have heard the stories of their families escaping, and some of them didn't even make it to come to the United States for a better life to get away from the Castros.

I always wanted to fly. When I was in theatre, I used to go up on Dunstable Downs on my day off to watch the gliders, to get away from it all.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.

I used to beg my mom to let me put a real bed out in forest so I could lie there and listen to the sounds of the forest while still having all the comforts of home.

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that's when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

There are no places better than Mahabaleshwar and Khandala to spend one's free time.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.