I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.

- Anton Corbijn

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

- Adam Baldwin

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

- Anne Roiphe

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

- Andrew Greeley

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

- Alice Hoffman

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

- Alice Hoffman

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

- Alex Pettyfer

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

- Alyssa Milano

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

- Alice Temperley

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

- A. A. Milne

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

- Andy Griffith

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

- Alex Berenson

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

- Alber Elbaz

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

- Alan Furst

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

- Anne Sullivan

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

- Andrea Dworkin

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

- Alfred A. Montapert

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

- Albert Camus

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

- A. C. Benson