High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Love means never having to say you`re sorry" is a line from the novel and 1970 film Love Story starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O`Neal. The quotation appears twice in the film: once around the middle when MacGraw`s character Jennifer Cavilleri says it, and again as the last line in the film, repeated by O`Neal`s character Oliver Barrett IV as a tribute to Jennifer. The line was actually misspoken from the script, which read "Love means not ever having to say you`re sorry."