78 Movie Quotes about Opportunity (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 7, 2025

Memorable quotes about opportunity, 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 Have it your way, kid. But remember what Shakespeare said. And I quote. Opportunity knocks but... -Psst! Once! -But once! Taken at the tide, t'will lead to fortune. If denied, t'will never return.

Quote from An American Tail

12 They call America the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to play in the filthy streets? To never see the sunshine?

Quote from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

13 There's no certainty, only opportunity.

Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta

14 Opportunity has knocked at my door. I'm going to be a leather pusher.

Quote from Palooka (1934)

15 Here we are. New York City, the land of opportunity.

Joe Pesci as Harry in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

16 We don't start people at the top, you understand? That would be too easy. We do it the American way. We give them an opportunity to work up from the bottom.

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

17 The only protecting women need is protection by equality under the law. Equality of opportunities and the right to share the benefits of this land, alongside men.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

18 Hey, that's all right! I'll walk with you. You know, whenever I see an opportunity now, I charge it like a bull. Ned the Bull, that's me now.

Stephen Tobolowsky in Groundhog Day

19 There's a big difference between a liar and an opportunist. It's not going to mark the boy. It's not going to make a confirmed liar out of him.

Quote from The Future Is Yours (1948)

20 What an opportunity for me then... to learn... from the best.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans