32 Movie Quotes about Incompetence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 20, 2025

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

1 Your incompetence sticks needles in the flesh of my honor.

Robert Patrick as Koga Shuko in Double Dragon (1994)

2 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

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

Quote from Night of the Living Dead (1968)

4 He is a bad engineer. He is unworthy of command. Therefore, I have removed him from his post.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

5 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

6 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)

7 Mentally incompetent, like animals after a long famine.

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

8 You sombitches couldn't close an umbrella.

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

9 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)

10 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