Quotes About Regret

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

My only regret is that I didn't get into acting ten years earlier when I was handsome!

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

I'm a terrible husband.

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

I was in love once, and it was terrible.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.