Quotes About Opportunity

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.

If you see life as an opportunity, or if you see helping others as an opportunity, then all of a sudden you become joyous. You want to go forward.

I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.