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

Last updated on: August 23, 2025

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

11 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)

12 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.

Quote from Die Hard (1988)

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

Quote from Independence Day (1996)

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

Quote from Holiday Inn (1942)

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

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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

Quote from Patton (1970)