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

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

America is another name for opportunity.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Every wall is a door.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

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

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.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

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

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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.

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.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

‚Be Cool‘ was a defining movie for me.

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

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

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.

Opportunity makes a thief.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.