Joyner Lucas Quotes

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

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

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

I was trying to sell a dream ... There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!