Quotes About Escape

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

I'd be out in my garden all day, every day if I were allowed.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I've tried everywhere, but my garden shed is the most effective place to write.

I love being in the garden, and my 'chilling-out room' is almost like being out there.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

Dancing allows me to go away and not have to think of what I'm doing next.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

You can't plan the best day because it just happens. But if I had to plan it, then I would go away for long drive for sure.

I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

A lot of times, people will say, 'You're running away from your problems.' So what? Why do you have to sit there and confront every single issue? Sometimes going away is the best answer.

I love going away with friends - it gets a bit raucous and fun.