Regretting Quotes

(On regretting doing nudity): I`m really sorry I didn`t listen to my intuition. From now on, I`m going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say no.

There`s no point regretting things. If you can`t do the time, don`t do the crime. Life`s too short to worry about things I`ve said.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn`t.

(speaking in 1969) When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema`s job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatrist, politician, message-maker, money maker and, incidentally, entertainer. But it`s no good regretting that things are different. Times have to change.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

I`ve lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty years ago?

No one that I`ve talked to is regretting that we had a tropical storm.