Jena Malone Quotes

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

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.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

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.

When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?