Katharine McPhee Quotes

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

I sell escapism.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

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

I think escapism is really important.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

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

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

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

Movies are about escape.

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Movies are different from real life.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.