Cilla Black Quotes

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

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.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.

The show has become my therapy.

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

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

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.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

I take refuge in my books.

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.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.