35 Movie Quotes about Incompetence with Audio

Updated: Jan 20, 2026

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1 And instead of fleeing into the hills, you chose to return to me and report your incompetence?

Tim Curry as The Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker

2 Are they slow-moving, Chief? - Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.

Quote from Night of the Living Dead (1968)

3 You know, you don't have a straight angle on that whole goddamn porch. Or the whole house, for that matter! He is the worst damn carpenter.

Quote from Unforgiven

4 I can tell you, without any exaggeration, I've killed more than a hundred men. -Very impressive figure. They sure were incompetent fighters.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)

5 Mentally incompetent, like animals after a long famine.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

6 We look like bad guys. Incompetent bad guys!

Quote from The Incredibles

7 You sombitches couldn't close an umbrella.

Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice "Smokey"; Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

8 You are symptomatic of the lazy, unimaginative management which is driving this country on the rocks!

Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger in The Italian Job (1969)

9 Get out of the way. Mister, you better find yourself another line of work. This one sure don't fit your pistol.

John Wayne as J.b. Books in The Shootist

10 What do I do? -Yes? -What do I do? -Nothing, dear. You're not qualified. -Leave it to us.

John Cleese in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life