Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.
I blew a chance at a million dollars.
I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.
I know how it feels to sit on the sideline and watch a spot that is supposed to be yours taken.
I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
I actually didn't go to prom. I didn't have the chance.
This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.
If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.
I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
I wish I had gone to a film school.
I could have been a writer.
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
We could have had it all...
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
