Mitt Romney Quotes

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.'

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

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.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

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.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

Sometimes you can't accomplish all your goals in life.

I've learnt that being second is worthless.

Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'