As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.
There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.
Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.
Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
Kylie Bunbury is a Canadian-American actress.
