20 Movie Quotes about Misfortune (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

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

11 Well, actually, what I heard was that you fell off your horse... drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.

Richard Harris as English Bob in Unforgiven

12 And while I'm on the subject, I just want to tell you that of all the groups of fat heads, that I've ever had the misfortune to gaze upon, you take the log pail.

Raymond Walburn as Maxford in Christmas in July (1944)

13 Forgive my not shaking hands. It becomes a bit awkward with these. A misfortune.

Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No in Dr. No

14 It can happen to the best of us. One moment everything is going smoothly. And the next, fate pulls the rug out from under us.

Alan Napier as Alfred The Butler in Batman (1966)

15 Fell in the sea! Holy mackerel! Just my luck to be a stowaway on a boat run by two land lubbers who manage to drop the engine in the ocean! The ocean! Argh!

Stan Laurel as Stan in Utopia (1951)

16 You too, sir? -I'll just watch. Roulette wheels have a way of running over me.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

17 And as for you, you picked a fine time to land in jail.

Pierre Watkin as Perry White in Superman (1948)

18 I don't believe it. How can I go through life with luck this bad? I plow into your car and my bumper falls off.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)

19 I think we'd have to heap a little more misfortune on those narrow shoulders.

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe in Trading places (1983)

20 Every time you step outside, disaster follows.

Gerard Butler as Stoick The Vast in How to Train Your Dragon

20 Movie Quotes about Misfortune (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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