Regret quotes

“I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.”
Jeremy Irons - Brom

“- Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
- Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
- Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
- Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!”

Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“- Father McKenna: I know a lot of people who have been married for years and they are still having second thoughts.
- Amy Jensen: That's encouraging.
- Father McKenna: But they should have never been married to begin with. They just made bad decisions and picked incompatible mates.”
John Bottoms - Father McKenna
Caitlin O'Heaney - Amy Jensen

“I don't want you to come kicking in my homeroom door because of something I didn't do.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Brendan

“He was ashamed of his persiflage, his boasting, his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness; he was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case that he truly regretted killing Jesse.”

Hugh Ross - Narrator

“- Maggie McCabe: It wasn't your fault.
- 'Bull' McCabe: Wasn't it my mouth the words came out of?”
Brenda Fricker - Maggie McCabe
Richard Harris - Bull' McCabe

“- Frodo: I wish it need not happen in my time.
- Gandalf: So do I.”
Christopher Guard - Frodo
William Squire - Gandalf

“- Kafka: When a document is sent to the Medical Records Division, is it possible to recall it for a view?
- The Keeper of the Files: Of course not. Who'd want to let in a bunch of riff-raff off the street?”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka
Robert Flemyng - The Keeper of the Files

“I'm ashamed of myself. I really am. I'm completely ashamed of myself.”

Chris Pontius - himself

“If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day.”
Juliette Lewis - Danielle Bowden

“I just wanted to say that... I'm so sorry for what's happened... I'm so lonely here, I want to go home... I just want to hold you, I want to hold my baby... can you forgive me... can you forgive me?”

Peter Mullan - Gordon Fleming

“Do it now! Or forever wish you had!”

Christopher Walken - Wilbur Turnblad

“Regret is usually a waste of time, as is gloating.”
Pierce Brosnan - Thomas Crown

“You've got nothin' to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't!”

Liam Neeson - Daniel

“- Sammy: Terry, I fucked my boss.
- Terry: What?
- Sammy: And his wife is six months pregnant...
- Terry: Jesus Christ, Sammy!
- Sammy: I know... I know...”
Laura Linney - Sammy
Mark Ruffalo - Terry

“- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: I have only one regret... that you will not live to see the glorious revolution that you have brought about...
- Zorro The Gay Blade: Why doesn't she say something like, I will love you forever? When's she going to say that?”

Lauren Hutton - Charlotte Taylor Wilson
George Hamilton - Zorro

“- Amy Jensen: Is it worth it?
- Ralph the Tailor: Huh?
- Amy Jensen: Well, getting married, I mean.
- Ralph the Tailor: Get dressed kid. I'll tell you the truth, though. Sometimes I wish I never got married. But other times, I wouldn't trade Roz for anybody. Heh. Marriage is like that. Good times, bad times. You learn to live with it. But it's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Caitlin O'Heaney - Amy Jensen
Joseph Leon - Ralph the Tailor

“I did a terrible thing to you. I spent a lot of nights wishing I could take it back.”
Thomas Haden Church - Flint Marko

“I'm afraid you're going to regret we ever met.”

Justin Chambers - D'Artagnan

“I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new.”
Meryl Streep - Susan Orlean

“- Grinch: I am the Grinch that stole Christmas... and I'm sorry.
[long silence]
- Grinch: Aren't you going to cuff me? Put me in a choke hole? Blind me with pepper spray?
- Mayor Augustus Maywho: You heard him, Officer. He admitted it. I'd go with the pepper spray.
- Officer Wholihan: Yes, I heard him all right. He said he was sorry.”
Jim Carrey - Grinch
Jeffrey Tambor - Mayor Augustus Maywho
Jim Meskimen - Officer Wholihan

“Regret do not understand English, only American.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“Don't kill love. You'll regret it for the rest of your life.”
Sarah Miles - Grace Rohan

“My only regret is that I have but one wife to give to my country.”
Robert Charles Benchley - Mr. Osborne

They say the number one killer of old people is retirement. People got 'em a job to do, they tend to live a little longer so they can do it. I've always figured warriors and their enemies share the same relationship. So, now you ain't gonna hafta face your enemy on the battlefield no more, which "R" are you filled with: relief or regret?
Michael Madsen - Budd