Wendy Williams Quotes

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

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

I think relaxation is escaping from your everyday encounters. You can read the words on a page and be transported to somewhere else. And the more consumed you are with it, the more you're cocooned.

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

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.

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.

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.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don't belong to my fans. I don't put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

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

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

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.