Noah Wyle Quotes

When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it."

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part of the astronaut for me. Taking that role would have been a way to get all the things I wanted.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

I don't regret anything I haven't done.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.

I often think, if I hadn't have done 'Blood, Sweat and T-shirts,' where would I be? What would I be doing?

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

I was very green when I started on 'General Hospital' and it really challenged me. There were times I began to doubt myself a lot.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

I think that when I was first starting out, even after I was on 'Gilmore Girls,' when things were going pretty well, I was constantly focused on what's next, how can my career get bigger? I could've had a little more fun, and I think I could've had a little more gratitude for the job I did have.

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

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

Do I have some regrets? Of course.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.