Passenger Quotes

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?

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.