You can escape into a character.

Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.