Donald Pleasence Quotes

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

Everybody is laden with guilt.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

I carry lots of guilt.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

I let the American people down.

I have no apologies.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Did I kill anyone?

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I am responsible for my brother's death. I feel the guilt of having survived. People say, 'You should be happy. You survived.' But I have this feeling that it is not right that I am alive.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.