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

Updated: Jul 4, 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.

81 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)

82 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)

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

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

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

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The Tigger Movie (2000)

85 Of course. I wasn't informed due to the all-too-common problem of human error.

William Daniels as Kitt in Knight Rider (1982)

86 They're all mistakes, children. Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

87 Well, I sure done a heap of things I shouldn't have done. Seemed urgent at the moment. Got myself a heap of sins to answer for. Wish I hadn't did 'em.

Chill Wills as Beekeeper in The Alamo (1960)

88 You saved my life. Thank you. -Well, anyone can make a mistake.

Cary Elwes as Garrett; Jessalyn Gilsig as Kayley in Quest for Camelot (1998)

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

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Augie Doggie; Snagglepuss in Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

90 We did it again!

Catherine Ohara; John Heard in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York