Quotes About Regret

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

I just really wish I'd met my grandfather.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.

When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.

I'll greatly miss 'Poldark' when it finishes.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

As a grown man, as a football player of my caliber there are situations... I could have done better, I should have done better.

I carry lots of guilt.

If I was guilty of anything, it was cheating on my wife, and that was it.

If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have worked with Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and K. Asif.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

There are a lot of things I would take back, off the field, to be a franchise guy.