電影 Pursuit of Happyness (當幸運來敲門) 的一段對話：
Father: All right, then we go sell a bone density scan. How about that? Want to do that?
Son: No.
Son: Hey dad, I go to pro. Ah ha... I go to pro...
Father: Oh okay... Yeah... I don't know... You know eh... You'll probably be about as good as I was... That's kind of the way it works. I was below average, so you'll probably ultimately rank somewhere around there, so I'm not really... You'll excel at a lot of things, just not this. I don't want you out here shooting this ball around all day and night, all right?
Son: All right.
Father: All right, come here.
Father: Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me. All right?
Son: All right.
Father: You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something. Go get it. Period. Let's go.
父親：好，然後我們去賣骨質密度掃描器。好不好? 想嗎?
兒子：不要
兒子：爸，我要去打職籃。(笑聲) 我要去打職籃。
父親： 哇... okay... 是啊… 我不知道… 你知道嗎… 你很可能會跟我以前差不多… 那通常是事情進行的方式。我在平均以下，所以你最後很可能也會落在那附近。所以…我不是…你將在許多方面有傑出的表現，但不是這個。我不想要你在這裡一天到晚射這個球，好嗎?
兒子：好。
父親：好，過來。
兒子：喂。絕不要讓別人告訴你你不能做什麼事，連我也不行，好嗎?
兒子：好。
父親：你有一個夢想，你必需保護它。別人他們自己不能做一些事，他們想告訴你你也不能。你想要什麼，去追求它。就這樣。我們走。
- "pro" 是 "professional"「職業的；專業的」的縮寫。"excel" 是「善於；勝過」，為動詞。"period" 是「句點」，也就是「就這樣；沒有商議空間」的意思。"You'll probably be about as good as I was." 是用 "as... as..."「如…一樣」的句型。
