142 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

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

Steve Buscemi in Big Daddy

72 I have an enormous respect for nurses, but most of them scare me. I always feel them behind my back, looking at their training manuals, counting my mistakes.

James Bell as Dr. Maxwell in I Walked with a Zombie

73 Oh, God, did I? I'm sorry. Damn. Damn! Sorry. I'm rather new to all this.

Rowan Atkinson as Nigel Small Fawcett in Never Say Never Again

74 Oh, come on, that was such a bad call.

Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast in Remember the Titans

75 Whoops. -Hey! Can't you think of anything tougher to say than, 'Whoops'?

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

76 'I didn't mean to do anything wrong.' Half the time, you don't know what you're doing. Trouble is, you always know what you want.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

77 Oh, I mean, come on. Everybody makes mistakes. He's human. -Oh, yeah? Prove it.

Martin Short as Martin Harvey in Captain Ron

78 Humanum est erare.

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

79 You've broken the sacred tail!

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

80 I mean, it's no sense defusing a bomb after it's already... It's already gone off.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger