Colin Morgan Quotes

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

Music can be a source of escapism.

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.

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.

I think escapism is really important.

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.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

'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.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

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.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

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