Quotes About Escape

But we can't escape into the future like we can escape into the past. So those of us who are not certain of things, and there are an awful lot of us, often rush back to the past. And each one has a particular past he prefers to the present. Sometimes I feel that any past is preferable to the present.

If you have the ocean and you have your board, nothing matters.

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

I don't get to go to the beach often, so when I'm in Miami I usually spent the majority of my time by the ocean.

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I want the audience to be transported to a different world once they enter the auditorium.

I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.