35 Movie Quotes about Incompetence (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 This guy could _ up a cup of coffee.

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

22 Consider yourselves fired and prison-bound. Your incompetence is nothing short of unspeakable!

Chris Sanders as Stitch in Lilo & Stitch (2002)

23 You see, I'm not very competent, really. In fact, I had a hard time getting a place before I came here.

John Carradine as Dr. Von Altermann in Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

24 Them? What them? -Keller and his partner. -You mean you didn't kill them? -No, I... -You are so incompetent!

Meg Foster as Quinn in Immortal Combat (1994)

25 I want those three killed on sight. No more incompetence. No hesitation. Just terminate. -Roger. Hand out.

Meg Foster as Quinn in Immortal Combat (1994)

26 You know, Kevin, you're what the French call Les incompetents.

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990)

27 An incompetent crew, a burning ship. Put overboard in a small boat at dead of night.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

28 Completely lost due to incompetence.

Cheech Marin as Pedro De Pacas in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke

29 What is important is that my guards performed their duties incompetently.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

30 Now, maybe, we can drop the criminal charges, but, believe me, that mental incompetence bit will be, ahem, tough to beat.

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)