Quotes About Escape

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.

Tsunamis are always big news around Hilo, grew up always getting ready to escape a tsunami.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out.

I realised that I couldn't live in a box. It was not for me.

Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.

Santa Barbara's gorgeous. It's just a perfect little getaway.

Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

I've got a great place, it's a country house.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

The great thing about going to Malawi is I have no contact for at least a week with anything that's happening back in Washington.