Passenger Quotes

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to be a superstar. I wanted to be on stage. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away, and you're hit with reality, and you're like, 'Oh, not everyone can be Lil' Bow Wow?' Fine.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

I had this fantasy vision of what a career as a musician was like. And then I grew up and actually got in the business and realized, it doesn't often work that way.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.