Quotes About Regret

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

I was supposed to see Lorde on the 'Melodrama' Tour in New York with my best friend, but then I got a callback for 'Booksmart' in L.A. and couldn't make the concert. Thank God I got the part!

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

I look back and see what life could have been if I hadn't applied myself in basketball, and I'm really thankful for every experience I've had.

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

I love cricket. Thankfully, I didn't make a career out of it. Otherwise today I'd have been working in a bank.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

I think most I regret the way I treated Dr. Dre after he so graciously opened the doors to his kingdom to me.

House of Fools,' that was the first thing I was sad that we couldn't do any more.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

The first thing I usually do after a fight is apologize to my coaches because I didn't do one damn thing they told me to do.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; the expressions I have made should be qualified as the most over-acted scene in the history of the cinema. The dog's expressions were more real than mine.

I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

The one thing disappointing I had coming out of college was not playing in the Rose Bowl.

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.