James Longstreet Quotes

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

The best years are behind me.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

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.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn't.