#escapism

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way. ↗

— Summer Altice

#be yourself #different #different things #easy #escapism

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. ↗

— Wayne Brady

#blow #chance #dimension #escapism #fight

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism. ↗

— Perry Farrell

#hendrix #jimi #music

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

— Charlie Kaufman

#friday #friday night #fun #going #i

Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not once did he allow himself to direct his endless, justified rage at the true culprit, the woman who had kept him locked up in her prison for as long as she could. All his life he attempted to free himself of that prison, with the help of drugs, travel, illusions, and above all poetry. But in all these desperate efforts to open the doors that would have led to liberation, one of them remained obstinently shut, the most important one: the door to the emotional reality of his childhood, to the feelings of the little child who was forced to grow up with a severely disturbed, malevolent woman, with no father to protect him from her. ↗

— Alice Miller

#escapism #age

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter! ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #escapism #humor #inspiration #news

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#artistry #better #book #creativity #escapism

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#current #entertainment #escapism #film #fun

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

— David Lloyd

#escapism #interested #me #need #our

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#music #sherlock-holmes #violin #music