142 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 23, 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.

41 Tut-tut, not another word. To err is human, to forgive...

Eric Blore as J. Thaddeus Toad in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

42 We killed the wrong man!

Quote from Secret Shaolin Kung Fu

43 Gasp! You knocked that down from up there?

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

44 There's a benefit to losing. You get to learn from your mistakes.

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

45 People sometimes make mistakes. -Yes, they do.

Matthew Broderick as Joshua Wopr in WarGames (1983)

46 Come on. You can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You _ed up. You trusted us.

Tim Matheson as Eric "Otter" Stratton in Animal House (1978)

47 Boy, let me tell you something. You know, them chains ain't medals. You get them for making mistakes.

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

48 How did you manage to shoot yourself with your own arrow? Didn't think that could be done.

Jon Voight as Ed in Deliverance (1972)

49 Plus, I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister.

Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious

50 Now, now, stop crying. Crying won't help it just because you made a stupid mistake.

Spencer Tracy as Richard Sumner in Desk Set (1957)