141 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

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

1 Oops. Looks like they missed.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 For instance, if you were to look up professional football's all-time bonehead plays you might read about a Miami Dolphin kicker named Ray Finkle who missed a 26-yard field goal in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XVll.

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

3 See? The door. You left it wide open. And leaving the door open is the worst mistake any employee can make because...

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

4 Yes, but before that, you has made your mistake. And many mistakes before that. Many, many, many, many... Many mistakes before that!

Steve Martin as Captain Smek in Home (2015)

5 What, that? Hoo! I double-dipple promise not to do that stuff again.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 Slight mistake there. He didn't own millions, he owed them.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

7 Eight bosses. So that means that when I make a mistake I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

8 That was the greatest shot I've ever seen. -The worst. I was aiming at the horse.

James Coburn as Britt in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

9 No mistakes in the tango. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, get all tangled up, just tango on.

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

10 Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. That's bad manners, eh?

Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970)