I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.

Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.

When I arrived in Madrid I felt that it was a dream that I didn't want to escape from.

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

You can't escape 'Star Trek' influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.

I'm really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes - I just think it's the best form of escape.

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

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