Ned Vizzini Quotes

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.