75 Movie Quotes about Excuses (Sound Clips) - page 4

Last updated on: June 21, 2025

Memorable quotes about excuses, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

31 Maybe there was a subway accident. -Absolutely. -A train got trapped underground with him inside. -And no phone.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

32 Maybe he had a car accident. Those cab drivers are maniacs. -They hit something and you slam into that plastic partition.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

33 Or his elbows could be in splints, so he couldn't really dial. -Or he could be unconscious. -In a coma. -Stuck in intensive care. -With a heart monitor beeping. -And like... No phone

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

34 So that explains it. -He was in jail. -And there was a phone. -But he only got one call so he had to call his lawyer.

Steve Zahn as George in You've Got Mail

35 I was stuck in a meeting which I couldn't get out of and the electricity went out in the building. And we were trapped on the 38th floor. And the telephone system blew too.

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

36 I know why you haven't got any excuse. You're afraid to give me an excuse! 'Cause you know that I know that you know that I know what you've been doing around here all day! Sitting there, fooling around!

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

37 I will not! Excuse me, ma'am, I was answering one of my many detractors.

Charlie Brown in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

38 But I would like to say this, tardiness is not something you can do all on your own. Many people contributed to my tardiness.

Quote from Clueless (1995)

39 Perhaps the gigawatt discharge coupled with the temporal displacement field generated by the time vehicle caused a disruption of my own brain waves resulting in a condition of momentary amnesia.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

40 Well, my car... horse broke down, and a bear ate my boots, and I guess I just forgot my hat.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part III

75 Movie Quotes about Excuses (Sound Clips) - page 4

31 Maybe there was a subway accident. -Absolutely. -A train got trapped underground with him inside. -And no phone.

32 Maybe he had a car accident. Those cab drivers are maniacs. -They hit something and you slam into that plastic partition.

33 Or his elbows could be in splints, so he couldn't really dial. -Or he could be unconscious. -In a coma. -Stuck in intensive care. -With a heart monitor beeping. -And like... No phone

34 So that explains it. -He was in jail. -And there was a phone. -But he only got one call so he had to call his lawyer.

35 I was stuck in a meeting which I couldn't get out of and the electricity went out in the building. And we were trapped on the 38th floor. And the telephone system blew too.

36 I know why you haven't got any excuse. You're afraid to give me an excuse! 'Cause you know that I know that you know that I know what you've been doing around here all day! Sitting there, fooling around!

37 I will not! Excuse me, ma'am, I was answering one of my many detractors.

38 But I would like to say this, tardiness is not something you can do all on your own. Many people contributed to my tardiness.

39 Perhaps the gigawatt discharge coupled with the temporal displacement field generated by the time vehicle caused a disruption of my own brain waves resulting in a condition of momentary amnesia.

40 Well, my car... horse broke down, and a bear ate my boots, and I guess I just forgot my hat.

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