19 Movie Quotes about Missed Opportunities (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Nov 13, 2025

Memorable quotes about missed opportunities, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 Man, we decided to leave this place just one damn day too late, you know?

Kevin Bacon as Val in Tremors (1990)

12 Shooting stopped. I guess we missed the robbery. -You can't have everything.

James Brolin as John Blane in Westworld (1973)

13 I give you the opportunity of a lifetime, and you just blow it!

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

14 Here I am with a great opportunity to get somewhere, to give you security for once, and I'm stuck.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

15 I had an opportunity. I had to take it. -Right. No matter what the consequences, no matter what it did to our marriage, you had to take this.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard (1988)

16 You know, it wasn't just my career. It was the biggest opportunity of my life.

Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson in Independence Day (1996)

17 You've decided I shouldn't have that opportunity. Not even the opportunity to refuse.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

18 And the irony of it is that I've got an opportunity and I can't take it.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

19 The last great opportunity of a lifetime, an entire world at war and I'm left out of it?

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)