Regretful Decisions Quotes

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

There are times in my career where I could've called it quits, and that would've ate at me for the rest of my life.

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

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it.

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

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.

My past is a bit checkered.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

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

I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

It was complicated at Madrid. I was suspicious. The lack of recognition for Makelele over there scared me. I was scared it would happen to me. But I should have gone there. Today, I don't regret the career that I have had, but if I could have changed one thing, it would be that: to go to Madrid.

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.