Annabella Sciorra Quotes

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

When I won the competition, I had just been offered a job as a designer in Düsseldorf, so that's probably what I'd be doing now. It can be fascinating to consider how your life might have turned out, like in the movie Sliding Doors, but I'm too busy to look back.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?

I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.