Garrett Camp Quotes

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?

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

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

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I never regretted what I turned down.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.