Opportunity quotes

“- John Matrix: This was the last time.
- Major General Franklin Kirby: Until a next time.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - John Matrix
James Olson - Major General Franklin Kirby

- Ben Jahveri: "The warmth in your heart makes others ha-ha-happy".
- Fred Ritter: I still like this one: "Opportunity is waiting, you need but to open the door".

Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“Once upon a time all I planned to do was play the tenor sax. Forever. That's it. Fillsville, man. But my dad and everybody said I was a sap, there was no money in it, so I go to law school, and I am here now, gone from another place. But I could play the tenor sax all day and all night. Everything was possible. And I was very certain that at any...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Weller - Roland Dalton

“- Lachaise: I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out with the money, Mr. Bond.
- James Bond: I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out with your life.”
Patrick Malahide - Lachaise
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“Let me tell you something kid: everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either because they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes.”
Art LaFleur - The Babe

“A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!”
Marc Smith - Off-World Tourism Ad

“They say opportunity's only got one hair on his head and you gotta grab it while it's going by and dog it down or you mightn't get another chance.”
William Demarest - Sgt. Heffelfinger

“- Joe Pendleton: I'm starting against Dallas? What about Jarrett?
- Max Corkle: They don't want to go with Jarrett. They want to go with you. Happy Birthday, Joe!”

Jack Warden - Max Corkle
Warren Beatty - Joe Pendleton

“I want a chance! God. I want a chance. God. I want a chance, like everyone else!”
Bruce Gray - Colonel Thomas H. Maguire

“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.”
Brittany Murphy - Stacy

“When you walk out that door, part of me will go right with you. But a whole new world's gonna open up for you.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Capt. Bob Hyde: I've waited a long time for an opportunity like this.
- Capt Hyde's Friend: You're going to make Major.
- Sally Hyde: Major?
- Capt. Bob Hyde: Major.”
Bruce Dern - Capt. Bob Hyde
Jane Seymour Fonda - Sally Hyde

“- Rocky: Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You wanna get every chicken in this place out of here at the same time?
- Ginger: Of course.
- Rocky: You're certifiable! You can't pull off a stunt like that; that's suicide.
- Ginger: Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Rocky: Couldn't agree more. And I will be leaving that way.”
Mel Gibson - Rocky
Julia Sawalha - Ginger

“I know what happened to you, and what you think it cost you. But the son who left me many moons ago in search of his manhood came back to me a drunken, self pitying, overgrown child. You are a terrible example for our people and a disgrace to your mother. You have an opportunity now to do some good.”

Betty Carvalho - Grandma

“He who bemoans the lack of opportunity, forgets that small doors many times open up into large rooms.”
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“They can make a mistake. You shouldn't let others get to you like this. Just follow what's in here. Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.”

Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller

“You know a woman's career as a dancer is half as long as a man's? So that means I have half as many chances of making it, right?”
Cynthia Rhodes - Jackie

“Is this your last best chance? Or are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?”
Jennifer Aniston - Justine Last

“This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before, and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing.”

Natalie Portman - Sam

“- Jerry Whitehall: Sixty thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine rooms? Christ.
- Kate Filmore: This place must be huge.
- Mrs. Paley: Oh, yes, yes. In a hypercube, there could be 60 million rooms.”
Neil Crone - Jerry Whitehall
Kari Matchett - Kate Filmore
Barbara Gordon - Mrs. Paley

“I have here an opportunity... This pen is made of chemicals, but if I took these same chemicals and recombined them, I could make an automobile, or an electric light! The whole world is made of chemicals Micheal, you can make anything! And if you're smart... you'll make opportunities.”
Wayne Robson - Lab Attendant

“While life exists, the possibilities are unlimited.”
Earl Boen - Nestor 1

“You only get one shot at life. Why waste it on sleep?”
Toby Stephens - Gustav Graves

“I'm better looking than you. Why doesn't that kind of shit happen to me?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Derek

“Sometimes it's better to miss an opportunity than to invite disaster.”
Uwe Ochsenknecht - Stilgar