Pete Hamill Quotes

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

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?

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I wasted so many years in my youth.

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

I'm not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life - your deepest regret, your greatest joy - then we're going to have a great chat.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn't do all the crazy stuff. I didn't have boyfriends or anything - the first man I met I married!

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, 'If I wouldn't have, my career would have been different' and sometimes when you don't have, you miss that opportunity.

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.

In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.