145 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

Updated: Jul 4, 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.

91 Now see what you made me do? God damn it, I messed up my pants.

Quote from The Nutty Professor (1996)

92 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

93 Failure is not an option.

Ed Harris as Gene Kranz in Apollo 13

94 A mistake? A voluntary mistake! Voluntary!

Quote from Apocalypse Now

95 Why don't you Americans learn from us? From our mistakes?

Quote from Apocalypse Now

96 Made a mistake, didn't you, fatso?

Quote from The High and the Mighty (1954)

97 She made a mistake. Let's not relive it.

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

98 You're making a big mistake. -That's what I told 'em.

Scott Glenn as Emmett; Kevin Costner as Jake in Silverado

99 Listen to me, I won't blame you if you've made a mistake. No. Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum.

Quote from Mr. Topaze (1961)

100 All this time I've been waiting for someone to make a slip. Someone has made it.

William Powell as Nick Charles in After the Thin Man (1936)