Top 77 Escapism Quotes

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn’t drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it’s fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it’s transformed into a rigid ‘box ticking’ discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

I see myself as a character actor, and I’ve always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I’ve never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

You’re used to having a camera in your face when you’re playing a character – it’s like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you’re so worried you’ll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film’s subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

I think we love the escapism of something like ‘Cinderella,’ and I think we do with ‘Thor.’

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism – escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you’re looking for leisure activities or if you’re looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense – whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don’t think it is.

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

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

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Everyone wants to escape, everyone’s drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we’re all so curious as human beings.

Coming out of the ’60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the ’70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

In real life, I’m polite and nice all the time. It’s fun to play people who aren’t. It’s escapism.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn’t escapism. Like, I didn’t want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Geography was the lesson I always looked forward to most. It was a form of escapism. It could be bleak midwinter outside but inside you’re learning about African farming methods or the Great Lakes. No other lesson had that excitement.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it’s total escapism, both physically and mentally.

My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me ‘Hollywood’ because I went to the movies all the time. It was such great escapism. That’s why I ran away from home.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it’s easy, disposable entertainment and it’s fun escapism.

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don’t feel like it’s irresponsible, I think sometimes you really need to take a breather.

It’s a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Escapism is survival to me.

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.

‘Strictly’ is feel-good escapism.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

For me, makeup will always be about glamour, fantasy, and escapism!

Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.

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 political lens, but there is a part of me that certain things trigger and pull up, where I’m like, ‘Oh, that was really problematic.’

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

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

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.

I’d been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing… and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.

I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.

Without its roots in reality, I don’t think escapism can survive.

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

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is 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.

Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

Writing is my escapism.

Acting is an amazing job. I’m very lucky to do it, and when you’re working with terrific people, telling stories you care about, and know it reaches an audience who care about it, too, there is an escapism in that.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it’s not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite’s the case.

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I think it’s important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is medicinal, and I think there is an escapism aspect – an act of self-care.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism – or what I call oblivion.

Music for me was a release, an escapism and it was really exciting.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.

I’m a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what’s going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.

I think escapism is really important.

People talk about escapism as though it’s something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

I have an understanding of how much is at stake in football, how much money is at stake, how much investment there is and what it means to the fans. It’s an emotional game. It’s a focal point for communities. It’s escapism for fans. Sport is a wonderful thing but it is just that: sport. It is my job.

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we’re normally concerned about just doesn’t matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it’s about moving in a certain direction – north if you’re going north – staying warm and not getting eaten. That’s it.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible – sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

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

It’s stupid to say that there’s any comfort to be had in ‘knowing your place,’ but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like ‘Downton Abbey.’ There’s a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

Jimi Hendrix’s music was escapism.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.