Emotional Escape Quotes

Music can be a source of escapism.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

This business - the auditions, the anxiety - it's all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.

Comedy is saving me.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

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

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.