Escapism Quotes · Page 3

Travel is best when it's as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film 'Thelma and…

— Douglas Booth

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

— Shelley Conn

“Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music…

— Peter Hook

“I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.”

— James Lusarde

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

— Charlie Kaufman

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it…

— Keira Knightley

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

— Dav Pilkey

I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France,…

— Danielle Trussoni

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

— Robin Wright

I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them.…

— Gary Carr

If I'm watching 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,' there's a part of that that's just escapism. I'm not watching it with a…

— Janet Mock

Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

— Cole Sprouse

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick…

— Ravi Zacharias

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to…

— Chelsea Handler

I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright.…

— Michael Jackson

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

— Ella Maillart

“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”

— Hernan Diaz

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

— Lauren Jauregui

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the…

— Sienna Miller

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

— David Lloyd

“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice…

— Idris Elba

“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.…

— Terry Pratchett

A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on…

— Ken Adam