68 Movie Quotes about Bad Luck (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Black cat holding a large bad luck placard

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

41 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)

42 If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck.

Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino (1995)

43 I just ran into a streak of bad luck, that's all. I'll be up there on top again. I just got to figure a new angle.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

44 That is bad luck. But grandfather say: It never rain every day.

Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element

45 No! It's very unlucky having a girl on your back.

Quote from The 14 Amazons

46 Didn't I just tell ya, don't touch me on the shoulder when I'm gambling? It's bad luck. Now I've lost everything.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

47 Fell in the sea! Holy mackerel! Just my luck to be a stowaway on a boat run by two land lubbers who manage to drop the engine in the ocean! The ocean! Argh!

Stan Laurel as Stan in Utopia (1951)

48 Perhaps you'd like to try a little roulette. It's probably less than wise of me to tell you, but the house is having a streak of bad luck this evening.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

49 You too, sir? -I'll just watch. Roulette wheels have a way of running over me.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

50 The scar cuts through here, severing your luck this year. The halo over your brow means disaster for you. No way around it.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman