Hayley Atwell Quotes

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.

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

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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 in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Comedy is saving me.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically but emotionally, so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again, and then that's the right time to do it again.

Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.

I know I feel crazy when I'm stressed out. You know when I don't feel crazy? When I'm in my nap pod.

Just getting away from the game, getting away from basketball was a good thing for me.