Patrick McGoohan Quotes

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

I'm a big boy, and I knew what I was getting into when I got into TV.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.