Washed Out Quotes

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different.

I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

I think escapism is really important.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

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

I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

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

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.