Regret quotes

“Looking back is a bad habit.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

No regrets, thats my motto. That and “Everybody Wang Chung tonight”.
Zach Galifianakis - Luke

“If I never knew you, if I never felt this love I would have no inking of how precious life can be. And if I never held you I would never have a clue how at last I'd find in you the missing part of me. In this world so full of fear, full of rage and lies, I can see the truth so clear in your eyes. So dry your eyes, and I'm so grateful to you. I'd...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Gibson - John Smith

“Hey! You just made the biggest mistake of your life, baby. I know you're gunna be missing me when you have that big, white, wrinkly body on you with his loose skin and old balls... gross! Ugh!”

Adam Sandler - Sonny Koufax

“My life is passing before my eyes. The worst part about it is that I'm driving a used car.”
Woody Allen - Larry Lipton

“Before you do anything, you have to ask yourself if you can do it. Can you forget about ever seeing your parents again? Can you kill a guard? Leave your kid at a gas station? Push some nice old lady to the ground just because she gets between you and the door? Because to do this thing, that's who you have to become. And if you can't, don't start...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liam Neeson - Damon Pennington

“I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad.”
Mickey Rourke - Marv

“- Roach: I should've shot him when I had a chance.
- Grommet: I feel like running.
- Rosie: You do and you die.”

James Le Gros - Roach
Bojesse Christopher - Grommet
Lee Tergesen - Rosie

“- Bev Rink: I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret making any of them.
- Jenna Rink: How come?
- Bev Rink: Because if I hadn't have made them, I wouldn't have learned how to make things right.”
Kathy Baker - Bev Rink
Jennifer Garner - Jenna Rink

“I can't believe how I treated you, Miles. You know, you're my best friend, and I, really let you down. I really let you down. I'm sorry. And I'm happy for you, you know? Winning the 2.09. That's great.”
Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell

“- Jack: No time for regrets, Elvis. We were the best fathers we could be under the circumstances.
- Elvis Presley: Yeah, I guess, no time for regrets. We got business to take care of.”
Ossie Davis - Jack
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

“I think there's just too much emphasis on guilt. All this guilt, guilt, guilt. Guilt for what? I'll bet if you ask any old timer in one of those old folks homes, they'd tell you they regret the stuff they didn't do. Not the stuff that they did do.”
Laura Ramsey - Audrey Dawns

“I wish I could turn back the clock and change things. I'd forget about Abby Lynn's swimming party and about Jesse Wade kissing me. I'd help Granny more. I'd watch her real careful and make sure she wasn't ever, ever sick with her heart.”
Kelsey Keel - Tiger Ann Parker

“Once upon a time your mama knew what it meant to shine.”
Sandra Bullock - Birdee Pruitt

“Of all the things I regret I did, the ones I didn't are the ones I mourn the most.”
Shirley Knight - Ann Butterfield

“No-one ever wished on their death-bed that they'd spent more time at the office!”
Briony Glassco - Maria

“I've been thinking a lot about Dad. We shouldn't have gotten him a grave. We should have come up here together with his ashes. He said this is where he was the happiest. He was a climber. I think every real climber would want to stay on the mountain.”

Robin Tunney - Annie Garrett

“- Cardinal Roark: Will that bring you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless, old, fart?
- Marv: Killing? No. No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing, will be a gas.”
Rutger Hauer - Cardinal Roark
Mickey Rourke - Marv

“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.”
Julianne Moore - Laura Brown

“Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.”
Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. Willard

“Does he think he just did something here? Shit. I could have had a V-8.”
Lela Rochon - Robin Stokes

“Everybody has regrets.”
Oliver Platt - Pete Van Heuten

“You've got six people and an elephant risking their lives so that you can go home with a clear conscience. You're afraid that when you're standing up on that rooftop with your brother in Fort Lauderdale, looking back over your sparkling military career, you're not gonna like what you see!”

Ray Liotta - Capt. T.C. Doyle

“Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.”
Sung Kang - Han

“- Captain Klaus Woermann: Who's this?
- Dr. Cuza: My son. He died in Spain. Five years ago this month. Fighting on the republican side. Where you in Spain?
- Captain Klaus Woermann: If I were, I would have been in the Thälmann brigade. The anti-fascist Germans. Your son and I, we would have been fighting on the same side. But no, I wasn't.”

Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann
Sir Ian McKellen - Dr. Theodore Cuza