Nico Santos Quotes

Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn't been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

The one mistake I will always kick myself for is not doing 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' It was written for me.

As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.