#escape

Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

#deanna-durbin #entertainment #escape #death

The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well, illusive with an I and elusive with an E. At best, narcotics do no more than promote bonhomie and give you a temporary taste of what freedom might be like; and drugs take you into another sub-level of, or sub-culture in, the same old game. The same old game, but with additional consequences. And at worst, well ... suffice it to say that you really, really do not want to go there. ↗

— H.M. Forester

#escape #reality #freedom

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

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You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#escape #into #you

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#marvelous #reality #rich #want #why

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#acting #because #bit #escape #gives

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#easy #escape #later #make #only

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? ↗

— Frank Pittman

#escape #every #great #how #know

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#change #escape #forever #going #interviews