154 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 12

Updated: Feb 20, 2026

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

111 The cave. Remember your failure at the cave.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

112 A pretty plot for fairy tales, Sire. But in real life, oh, no. No! It was foredoomed to failure.

Helene Stanley as Cinderella in Cinderella (1950)

113 It's going to go 100-percent failure within 72 hours.

Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

114 Would you say we have a reliable 72 hours till failure?

Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

115 Still, it was his idea to carry out the failure mode analysis, wasn't it?

Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

116 But their loss and failure is ours too.

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

117 And I've been rather a failure, haven't I?

Bruce Lee as Dubbed In English By Unknown Actor in Fist of Fury (The Chinese Connection)

118 As a father, a husband? I don't know a failure, disappointment maybe. I don't know that.

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak

119 Knight Three, pull up! Complete failure in the stators! Pull up!

Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson in Independence Day (1996)

120 Preparations A through G were a complete failure.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember