Glen Hansard Quotes

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

There are so many dreams that I'd like to follow.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Everything that I am doing now is what I wanted to do as a kid.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

When you're a little girl, living your dreams, even tiny little stages in someone's backyard are amazing.

There's so much to do in life, and hopefully I will do it all.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Dreams are essential to life.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

You can plant a dream.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.