Eric Roth Quotes

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

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

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

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

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.

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

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

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

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

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.'

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

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

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

Unfortunately, in life, you have to make decisions based on so many things. I love watching the Premier League, and I've always had the opportunity to go, but a better offer always got in the way.

Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.