138 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

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.

61 You thought you had it cold, didn't you? All wrapped up in tissue paper, with pink ribbons around it. It was perfect. Except it wasn't, because you made one mistake just one little mistake.

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity

62 You not only make the same mistakes year after year, you don't even change your apologies.

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

63 But who cares, everybody has to make a few mistakes in this world and it's nice to see that you've gotten around to making a few yourself. Good night.

Quote from Champagne for Caesar

64 So what? Even smart men make mistakes. And the smartest ones make the biggest mistakes.

Quote from The Avenging Eagle

65 Could we have made a mistake? -I don't see how. -Me neither. But still we're only human.

Quote from Batman (1966)

66 Now don't be mad because you're wrong once in a while. You can't be right all the time.

Martha Raye as Annabella Bonheur in Monsieur Verdoux

67 I'll tell you what. You see me making a wrong move, you go ahead and speak up. I might not agree with you, but I'll listen.

Clint Eastwood as Chief Red Garnett in A Perfect World

68 You know, something tells me you're about to make woman's fatal mistake: Talking too much.

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

69 We strayed from the formula, and we paid the price.

Joe Mantegna as Harry Flugleman in Three Amigos

70 Why? -Well, in retrospect, I made some really bad choices after high school.

Steve Buscemi in Big Daddy