My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let… — Wayne Brady Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious… — Josh Bowman Copy Share Image
You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
You give of your talent, of your ability.. The talent that was given you by the Heavens. Thats why were here, to… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, life is hard,” whispers Erika, “but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places – that’s your… — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“Gaming is my jam. It’s my total escape. It’s where I really get to be me: to be in control, to be… — H.C. Roberts Copy Share Image
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or… — Summer Altice Copy Share Image
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I withdraw my consent from reality. I deny it my assistance. I dedicate myself to the temptations of escapism, and throw myself… — Ursula Poznanski Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious. — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
“...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
“I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil.… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
