Regret quotes

“All the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.”
Barry Corbin - Ellis

“- Doris Mann: I was such an awful mother... what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner?
- Suzanne Vale: These are the options? You, Joan or Lana?”
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“Indiana Jones, this is one night you'll never forget. This is the night I slipped right through your fingers. Sleep tight and pleasant dreams. I could've been your greatest adventure.”
Kate Capshaw - Willie Scott

“I was so captivated by all the magical creatures I found that I lost sight of the one I already had. But I see now, and I may never be able to forgive myself.”
David Strathairn - Arthur Spiderwick

- Andrew: Let's try to be nice to each other. Cause it's New Year's fucking Eve, isn't it? New Year's fucking Eve, in Peter's fucking mansion, where Peter gets to be the lord of the manor, and I get to regret ever leaving England!
- Peter Morton: Andrew I know this isn't you speaking, this is "drunk you".

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Andrew
Stephen Fry - Peter Morton

“Looking at the cake is like looking at the future, until you've tasted it what do you really know? And then, of course, it's too late.”
Nicol Williamson - Merlin

Now in these last agonizing minutes of life you have left, let me answer the question you asked earlier more thoroughly. Right at this moment, the biggest "R" I feel is Regret. Regret that maybe the greatest warrior I have ever known, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin, scrub, alky piece of shit like you. That woman deserved better.

Daryl Hannah - Elle Driver

“- John Beckwith: For longer than I care to remember, my business has been crashing weddings. I crashed weddings to meet girls. Business was good. I met a lot of girls. It was childish and it was juvenile.
- Claire Cleary: And pathetic.”
Owen Wilson - John Beckwith
Rachel McAdams - Claire Cleary

“I lied to you too. When I told you I didn't want to be like you. Because I am like you. Everything good that I have inside of me, I have from you. I love you so much daddy. And I'm so proud of you, I'm so scared. I'm so scared.”

Liv Tyler - Grace Stamper

“The lies I've told! The lives I've ruined! Wait... this isn't helping me!”

Greg Kinnear - Ratchet

“Ask not what your country can do for you, only regret that you have but one life to live!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“I decided not to take up my place at Cambridge. I decided I wanted to make myself useful, do something practical. But no matter how hard I work, no matter how long the hours, I can't escape from what I did and what it meant, the full extent of which I'm only now beginning to grasp.”

Romola Garai - Briony - 18 years old

“You're asking me a direct question? I thought you never were going to do that. You never wanted to before.”

Chris Cooper - Conklin

“Pack a pillow and blanket. Go, see the world. You will never regret it, Gogol.”

Irrfan Khan - Ashoke

“- Jessica: I should have made love to you when I had the chance.
- Billy: Father Mulcahy?”

Rob Schneider - Jessica
Matthew Lawrence - Billy

“I ain't trying to get in your business but, I mean, I do know a little something about being pissed. I mean, it's all just feelings, man. It's all just feelings, man. From females to friends to funerals it's all about the feelings. I just want you to recognize the difference between what you feel and what's real. That way you don't look back on...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mykelti Williamson - Uncle George

“- Gordon Fleming: What's the stupidest thing you've ever done?
- Phil: You mean aside from coming to work for you?... Well, I would have to say introducing Hank to Amy. That was pretty fucking stupid. I'd like to have that one back.”
Peter Mullan - Gordon Fleming
David Caruso - Phil

“Isn't it true however far we've wandered into our provinces of persecution, where our regrets accuse, we keep returning back to the common faith from which we've all dissented, back to the hands, the feet, the faces?”
Gordon Pinsent - Grant Anderson

“- Wayne Gale: So tell me Mickey? Any regrets? I mean, three weeks, fifty people killed... not too cool Mickey.
- Mickey Knox: Fifty-two, but I don't a lot of time with regret. That's a wasted emotion.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Wayne Gale
Woody Harrelson - Mickey Knox

“- Cho Osaki: I have given up fighting. My sword is sealed forever. Here in America I will not follow the Way of the Ninja. No more.
- Kane Osaki: Why not daddy?
- Cho Osaki: Because the Way killed your mother.”
Shô Kosugi - Cho Osaki
Kane Kosugi - Kane Osaki

“I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these things!”

Gary Busey - Pappas

“- The Nun: I have forgiven them.
- The Lieutenant: But do you have the right? You're not the only woman in the world. You're not even the only nun. Your forgiveness will leave blood in its wake. What if these guys do something like this again? To other women, other virgins? Old women who die from the shock? Do you have the right to forgive them?...” (continue)(continue reading)

Frankie Thorn - The Nun
Harvey Keitel - LT

“- Adrienne Pargiter: The Prince Albert was full of women and children, not soldiers.
- Captain Tanaka: A matter of regret.
- Adrienne Pargiter: More than that. There's a Geneva Convention laying down the rules of war.
- Captain Tanaka: Japan has signed no Geneva Convention. If war has began, it can only mean the time for rules has ended. The aim...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter
Stan Egi - Captain Tanaka

“- Tracker Lewis Gates: We were riding the back country, making a river crossing. Her horse spooked, bucked her. I went in after her. Current was too strong. One second she was there, and... Her dad still blames me to this day.
- Professor Lillian Sloan: What else could you have done?
- Tracker Lewis Gates: Drowned.”

Tom Berenger - Lewis Gates
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

Guess when I'm an old man, I'll never have to wonder, "What if...?".
Ashton Kutcher - Oliver Martin