Quotes About Escapism

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

Something about a river trip always seems to promote the consumption of potable drugs.

I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate.

Video games ruined my life. (Good thing I have two more.)

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Instead I have always hidden from you, in my room, among my books, with crazy friends, or with extravagant ideas.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Peter feasts off people-he finds himself so totally boring that he's got to escape from himself and find refuge and security in another personality-that's the only form of communication left open to him.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Når man har et prosjekt, er det mye enklere å late som om man er en annen. Man kunne late som om man var Nancy Drew, for eksempel, eller Maria i Sound of Music, eller den forstandige og rappkjefta husholdersken i The Brady Bunch.

Al escucharlos, Matías se veía a sí mismo compartiendo su aventuras y eso era lo que más le gustaba porque en el momento en el que le parecía formar parte de esa historia, Matías dejaba de estar triste, olvidaba sus preocupaciones y se abandonaba a un mundo en el que al final todo salía bien.