Victor Salva Quotes

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.

There's not too many times in life do you get a chance at redemption.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

I spend a lot of time hanging out with kids in their early twenties who feel like they've messed up and have really screwed up in a lot of ways. We spend a lot of time talking to them and saying, 'You can change that.'

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

At some point, people have to come out of the penalty box for the things they have done in the past.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.