Antonio Banderas Quotes

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

When I get out, I get annoyed with myself.