Victoria Arlen Quotes

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.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

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.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

Cruising' is feel good TV.

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

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

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.

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

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

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

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.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Life is all about having a good time.

I just want to have fun.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.