67 Movie Quotes about Bad Luck (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Jan 11, 2026

Memorable quotes on bad luck, selected from famous and lesser-known movies and more, with short audio samples available in mp3 and wav.

31 Uh-oh. -What? What's the matter? -You spilled the salt, that's what's the matter. Spilling the salt is very bad luck.

Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber

32 If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

Mel Blanc as Sylvester The Cat in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

33 Old Tigger will be your bodyguard. I'll guard your body from all the ill fortune that's gonna befall it.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

34 You can run from bad luck, but you can't hide!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

35 This is some black day. You could have come any day. But you had to come today. When I'm trying to make money.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)

36 Sir, there's 13 steps on this ladder. -Superstitious nonsense!

Bob Newhart as Bernard in The Rescuers (1977)

37 20 years! Holy God. What for? -Bad luck. -I guess you can say that again.

Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

38 A little bad luck might've made him realize what things can mean when you earn them.

Angie Dickinson as Beatrice Ocean in Ocean's 11 (1960)

39 Well, I was mauled by a cougar, learned nothing about driving, and my Crystal Gayle shirt was ruined. But other than that, it went fine.

Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

40 Dear, it's unlucky to have someone spit at you unless you spit first.

Jennifer Jones as Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm in Beat the Devil (1953)