Curtis Armstrong Quotes

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.

Every opportunity passed is lost.

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

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

There have been films I have said no to and there are roles that I wish I had done.

Around the time that Girls Aloud was at its biggest, I was offered some huge acting roles in America. I decided to stay loyal to the band rather than take those other opportunities. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just taken them.

I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.

If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.

As you move along, it's about choices. Once you've gathered enough credits, you have to be more specific. You have to know what level of show you want to work on and be willing to turn down a lot of work to have the career you want.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

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

I feel like I turned down a lot of things that I wish I hadn't. But you never know when you're younger. I don't have regrets about certain things I turned down. Those films would have required things of me that would have been challenging, and they ended up being really good movies. But I was never a careerist, I never thought in those terms. I'd be like, "Oh, I'm tired. I don't want to work."