Rick Derringer Quotes

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I've always wanted to direct and write. But I've been so busy - and fortunate and lucky - as an actor.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

I'd love to have done more film, but you can't have everything.

I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

I sleep good because I have a great family and stuff like that, a great life, but career-wise, I have some things I need to accomplish.

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.