Quotes About Escape

After 'Question Time,' I find my mind is racing. So I try to watch something that's a million miles away from all that, like 'Poldark' or 'Call the Midwife' or 'Derry Girls.'

It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.

Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

A program like the Fresh Air Fund gives people a chance to break away for a while. I've been fortunate to be able to raise my family that way.

I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.

I think I just wanted to run after my dad died, so I ran to Australia. It's only looking back that I think that, though. I never would have done anything like that before; it was so out of character.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

I'm human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.