Jeffrey Archer Quotes

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I don't regret a single day of my life.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

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.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

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 wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.