Quotes About Regret

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

If I had maintained my athletic fantasy, I probably would have ended up as a fat football coach somewhere in central Pennsylvania. I'm really glad I'm starring in a Broadway musical instead.

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?

the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

You're just another story I can't tell anymore.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.