Laura Carmichael Quotes

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it.

I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

Had the Sally never sailed, I should have been preserved from an Evil, which has given me the most uneasiness, and has left the greatest impression and stain upon my Conduct in life...

People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how you try to cover up is the story. These are not career criminals.

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

My mother died of a stroke in 1974, and for a long time, I blamed myself. She was utterly devastated when I told her I was a lesbian not long before.

I thought I was horrible and really mean on 'Total Divas.'

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

I don't think there's a person out there who can say they haven't done something they regret.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

I've done dumb things.