Quotes About Opportunity

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown.

One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn once's livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Life begins at night

Anything that takes us out of our comfort zones for a while can act as a reminder that the past we are used to may not be our best future.

Only poor people go to jail.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

it helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display, and all of a sudden if you are single, you have a window to heaven and no way at all to get in.

think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

Just think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

It was a perfect day to rob a bank.

And if it was a project, would it be a chance to show his talent?

But just as an actor needed a breakout role to become a star, an architect needed a career-making project. And

A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Jimmy looked at me and said, "I think you should stay in Chicago for a while." And what a town that turned out to be. If you can't make money in Chicago you can't make money anywhere. They leave the bodies right on the sidewalk. If your dog was with you, your dog goes, too. They

I asked him about work, and he sent me to a guy and the guy asked me if I thought I could handle loading hindquarters. Three days a week I was going to the gym and hitting the heavy bag, the speed bag, lifting weights, and playing handball. Plus I was teaching dancing, so I picked up a hindquarter like it was a pork chop, and I got the job. The

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.