138 Movie Quotes about Mistakes (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 We progress and mature by fault.

Frank Thring in Ben-Hur (1959)

82 Marry him? Ay, Chihuahua, that will be a very big mistake. It will get on the way of your career in showbusiness while doing all the time those things domésticos.

Charo as Mrs. Toad in Thumbelina (1994)

83 I wish you would tell me how to become young again. -Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days? -A great many, I fear. -Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

84 One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

85 When you break something that wasn't supposed to be broken, there's only one thing to do... And that's hide it.

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

86 Maybe I been goin' about this all the wrong way upside-down.

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The Tigger Movie (2000)

87 Heavens to Hamill. Whoops! Sorry, fellas. Just a miscalculation, lack of coordination and a slight goof, even.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

88 We did it again!

Quote from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

89 Now see what you made me do? God damn it, I messed up my pants.

Quote from The Nutty Professor (1996)

90 A mistake? A voluntary mistake! Voluntary!

Quote from Apocalypse Now