Changing the Past Quotes

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

My goal was to try and kind of be our generation's Marty McFly. That was what my all-time goal was.

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad