Quotes About Escapism

I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

You know, 'Jurassic Park' is a film I always go back to a lot - it's a fantastical world, but I care about all the characters in that situation, and then I think in caring about them, it can make it relatable and help me kind of see this heightened world through, not always familiar eyes, but at least eyes I can understand.

I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.

I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!

You read much, Bernie?' 'More and more,' I admitted. 'And for me it's like the French Foreign Legion. I do it to forget. Myself, I think.

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.

I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

Let's be honest, we don't watch 'The Bachelor' as a PSA. We watch it for entertainment.

I love 'The Bachelor!' Yeah, all people love 'The Bachelor.'

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

When you need to escape life's rough edges for a few hours, nothing could beat seeing a great film.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.