Spalding Gray Quotes

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

I dropped out of high school, and had this girlfriend, and we broke up, and it was this horrible crisis.

Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.

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

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

I think to myself, How would things be for me if my dad was still alive? Would we get along? Would we argue? You know, we never got to the falling-out stage with each other.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

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.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.