Quotes About Escape

Hombre pequeñito que jaula me das. Digo pequeñito porque no me entiendes, ni me entenderás. Tampoco te entiendo, pero mientras tanto ábreme la jaula que quiero escapar. Hombre pequeñito, te amé media hora, no me pidas más.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

I think pop music, for me as a kid, I hated school and ran home to watch Britney Spears videos. I just felt like I could forget about the stuff I didn't like about my life and listen to pop music and escape.

When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I watched those things, I felt like it was such a good escape. It wasn't even that I needed an escape, but I wanted to be an actor so I could give that feeling to someone else.

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

I can stay up watching TV so late.

I have anxiety when I'm watching TV.

I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina, weird and pudgy, without too many other kids to play with. I spent a lot of time watching TV. It was my reassurance that the outside world was bigger and more colorful than the one I lived in.

People work hard all week at their jobs. I want people watching TV to have a good time.

Being in water makes me relax instantly.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

I can't really choose how I'm going to connect to music. I find it just has to hit a wave, and just wash over me and take me completely to some other space.

And, you know, I think all of us surfers, our happy place, the place we like more than anywhere on the wave is in the barrel.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Is there no way out of the mind?