138 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about mistakes, 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 Oops. Looks like they missed.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 Look what you've done! Well, what have you to say for yourself? -TTFN. Ta-ta for now.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 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

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

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

5 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

6 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.

Quote from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

7 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)

8 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)

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

Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970)

10 It won't work, Dusty. You got the right numbers in the wrong game.

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