O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

Music can be a source of escapism.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

Music is something that should give you peace.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.