Nina Blackwood Quotes

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

Now it’s too late!

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don't have many regrets, but I remember he'd shown some interest, and I was just in my own world, man.

One of the biggest regrets I have in life is not getting an opportunity to work with Yash Chopra.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Sooner or later usually means too late

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.