Peter Lawford Quotes

I have no regrets, I've had a fantastic life, travelled the world.

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

I know as quickly as people come up you can go down and I'm just trying to enjoy it and experience things that I never got to have, that's all it is.

I wouldn't say I have felt troubled here at United. I am not troubled. I am lucky. I have loved my time here.

I want to live life, not just spend it.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.