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

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.

71 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

72 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

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

Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast in Remember the Titans

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

Quote from Rocky II

75 '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)

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

Martin Short as Martin Harvey in Captain Ron

77 Humanum est erare.

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

78 You've broken the sacred tail!

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

79 I'm sorry, Papa. I'm sorry. I know you're allergic to me goofin' up.

Quote from 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