Regrettable Decisions Quotes

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

Here's the story: 25 years ago, I had my lips injected with silicone. Stupid thing to do at 24. I saw 'Beaches.' Remember that movie 'Beaches'? I did it with my best girlfriend, so she and I go and we get our lips done. Fine. I have it like that for my whole career, right? So then cut to a couple of years ago, I have a doctor remove as much as they possibly can because it got to the point where they were yucky. You know, they get hard. It's gross. They are now whatever that was after they took out as much of the silicone as they could.

Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy?

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Bute coming over here is a big mistake.

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.