Josh Brolin Quotes

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

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

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.