138 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 Generosity. That was my first mistake! I leave these people a little bit extra and they hire these men to make trouble.

Eli Wallach as Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

52 We've made some mistakes along the way. Some, very recently.

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in The Avengers (2012)

53 No, that's no mistake. It's an attack.

Topol as Hans Zarkov in Flash Gordon (1980)

54 Should have or could have, it don't matter. You'll get plenty of time to think about all that later. Believe me.

Eric Bana as Hoot in Black Hawk Down

55 You've done it, you stupid old man. Now you got to undo it.

Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary (1989)

56 It's a mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

57 Why do you always get that wrong? -Because it's not important for me to get it right.

Quote from Scent of a Woman (1992)

58 Oh, he barked up the wrong tree!

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston in Jingle All the Way (1996)

59 Failure is not an option.

Ed Harris as Gene Kranz in Apollo 13

60 Well, I can't say I always decide right.

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)