Regret quotes

“I'm saying you've already done plenty of things to regret, you just don't know what they are. It's when you discover them, when you see the folly in something you've done, and you wish that you had it do over, but you know you can't, because it's too late. So you pick that thing up, and carry it with you to remind you that life goes on, the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Danny DeVito - Phil Cooper

“Miss Russell, I should've called the police that night but I was weak. You convinced me to stay silent. I regret that. Know this: every time I see your face, I wanna rip your throat out.”
Scott Glenn - Bill Burton

“- Gomez Addams: Tastes like cotton candy.
- Morticia Addams: How do you know what cotton candy tastes like?
- Gomez Addams: Tish, it was my youth. I made mistakes!”
Oscar Isaac - Gomez Addams
Charlize Theron - Morticia Addams

“- Marie: You made one mistake.
- Hank: It wasn't one mistake. I've been... unraveling, y'know? I don't sleep at night anymore. I freeze, I freeze up. My chest gets all tight, I can't breathe. Just...I panic. Ever since that Salamanca thing. Tuco Salamanca, if ever a scumbag deserved a bullet between the eyes... It changed me and I can't seem to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Betsy Brandt - Marie Schrader
Dean Norris - Hank Schrader

“- Bomi Bulsara: So now the family name is not good enough for you.
- Freddie Mercury: I've changed it legally. No going back.”
Ace Bhatti - Bomi Bulsara
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time.”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern

“The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There's only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago...”
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“Sometimes all it takes is a split second for you to do something you'll regret the whole rest of your life.”
Kevin Costner - Stephen Simmons

“We acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women, and children, and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember.”
Harrison Ford - President James Marshall

“Blame the Catholic church for not letting me wear one of those little rubber things... Oh they've done some wonderful things in their time, they preserved the might and majesty, even the mystery of the Church of Rome, the sanctity of the sacrament and the indivisible oneness of the Trinity, but if they'd let me wear one of the little rubber...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Palin - Dad

“- Roy Hobbs: I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.
- Iris Gaines: And then?
- Roy Hobbs: And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is your to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
Rosario Dawson - Mimi Marquez

“- Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
- Sully: Not often. Now and then.”
Jessica Tandy - Miss Beryl
Paul Newman - Sully

“According to Heraclitus, we cannot step into the same river twice. To put it another way, an opportunity lost stays lost forever.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert

“At the end of every day I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge these words come to me in a whisper. I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Lowenstein,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't.”

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Elinor Dashwood: Poor Willoughby. He will always regret you.
- Marianne: But does it follow that, had he chosen me, he would have been content? He would have had a wife he loved, but no money, and might soon have learned to rank the demands of his pocketbook far above the demands of his heart. If his present regrets are half as painful as mine...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“- Kuzco: Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But, Yzma, do you really want to kill me?
- Yzma: Just think of it as you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction, that your body's part of a permanent outplacement.
- Kronk: Hey, that's kinda like what he said to you when you got fired.
- Yzma: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Patrick Warburton - Kronk
Eartha Kitt - Yzma
David Spade - Kuzco

“- Pacha: Someday, you're gonna wind up all alone, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
- Kuzko: Thanks for that. I'll log that away.”
John Goodman - Patcha
David Spade - Kuzco

“Might have to drop 'em. Might have to drop a dime on them niggas.”
Tyrin Turner - Big

“Maybe we should've robbed a liquor store like everybody else.”
Richard Pryor - Zeke

“- Judy Benjamin: What do you want from me? I didn't ask her to punish everybody! Do you think I like schlepping in the rain all day and all night?
- Pvt. Wanda Winter: Just keep marching, Benjamin.
- Judy Benjamin: My name is Judy! J-U-D-Y! Judy! And I'd like somebody to call me by my name! Oh, okay I took my life in my own hands, I made a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Goldie Hawn - Judy Benjamin
P.J. Soles - Pvt. Wanda Winter

“It's like seeing someone for the first time, like you can be passing on the street, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of a recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. And you always remember it because it was there, and you let it go, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Clooney - Jack Foley

“Dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.”
Tim Curry - Darkness

“- Miguel: Any regrets?
- Tulio: You mean besides dying? Yeah. I never had enough... gold.
- Miguel: My regret, besides dying is... our greatest adventure is over before it began, and no one will even remember us.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel
Kevin Kline - Tulio