Escaping Quotes

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.