35 Movie Quotes about Incompetence (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jan 20, 2026

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

11 You cost us thousands of dollars because you can't read.

Quote from Rocky II

12 He has pulled the wrong tooth! There's only one man who would pull the wrong tooth. It's Clouseau! Kill him! Kill him!

Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

13 Are you kidding? These guys are the lousiest circus bugs you've ever seen.

John Ratzenberger as P.T. Flea in A Bug's Life

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

Robert Patrick as Koga Shuko in Double Dragon (1994)

15 You're what the French call Les incompetents.

Quote from Home Alone (1990)

16 Talk! -I don't know. -You don't know? I can't tolerate people like you who waste my time.

Quote from Of Cooks And Kung Fu (1979)

17 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

18 He's weak. He's incompetent. He jeopardizes the whole place.

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

19 He's too incompetent, and the bottom line is, he cannot be trusted.

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

20 This guy could _ up a cup of coffee.

Joe Pesci as Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro in Casino (1995)