Laura Fraser Quotes

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

At least on this side.

You don't have to be either.

I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?