If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys… Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house… and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

‚Be Cool‘ was a defining movie for me.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Some day I shall be President.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.