Mistake quotes
450 mistake quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Tommy Boy
“- Richard: Hey... I was just thinking... when we stopped for gas this morning I think it was you who put the oil in.
- Tommy: Hey if you're going to say I didn't put the right kind in, you're wrong. I used 10-W-30. And besides, motor oil would have nothing to do with this accident.
- Richard: True. But you can't latch the hood too well, if you...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Last Song
“People make mistakes, Will. Even the people that we love.”
- From the movie: Die Hard
- From the movie: The Usual Suspects
“How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?”
- From the movie: Rush Hour 2
- From the TV Series: Anne Frank: The Whole Story
- From the movie: 13 Going On 30
“- Bev Rink: I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret making any of them.
- Jenna Rink: How come?
- Bev Rink: Because if I hadn't have made them, I wouldn't have learned how to make things right.” - From the movie: The Fan
“All my life I've been working to be the best. You know? Trying to be a perfectionist. And I thought about it, that's probably where I made my mistake.”
- From the movie: Mr. Destiny
“Why is it when you do something terrific, nine times out of ten you're all alone, but when you screw up really big, the whole world is watching?”
- From the movie: The Music Man
- Mayor George Shinn: Not one poop out of you, Madame!
- Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn: I think he means "peep"!
- Mayor George Shinn: Yes! - From the movie: The Cheap Detective
“- Paul DuChard: Anything wrong?
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Oh, no, no. No, it's, uh, my mistake here, uh. For a second here I thought that this young lady was a girl that I knew in France; I was wrong; the girl I know is dead.
- Paul DuChard: Oh, a natural error, monsieur. My wife has been mistaken for dead girls by many men.” - From the movie: White Hunter Black Heart
“- John Wilson: How many chances does a man get?
- Ogilvy: That's never a reason to do something wrong.” - From the TV Series: Anne of Green Gables
“The fact that you rescued me, unnecessarily, hardly wipes out past wrongs.”
- From the movie: Three to Tango
You have a Buddha! Oh, I love Buddhas. They're like bright, cheery, naked Asian Santas. You know, I had a buddy in college whose name was Bob and we used to call him "Buddha Bob" because he was kind of fat and he liked to walk around naked. We used to rub his belly for luck. Anyway... I love Buddha. He rocks.
“Life is not life unless you make mistakes.”
- From the movie: Atonement
- From the movie: The Terminal
“- Amelia Warren: I just keep ingesting these poisonous men until I make myself sick.
- Viktor Navorski: You're not sick, Amelia, no. You're a little far-sighted.” - From the movie: The Hours
- From the movie: Highlander: Endgame
“Men for the most part can mend their ways only after they have made a mistake.”
- From the movie: Hot Rod
“- Rod Kimble: You look pretty.
- Denise: What?
- Rod Kimble: I said you look shitty.” - From the movie: Outside Providence
“Today you should have seen me and Mousy today at school today.”
- From the movie: Hot Shots!
“- Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson: I would like to thank you for having us over for dinner the other night. Cheryl and I thought the stroganoff was marvelous.
- Lt. Cmdr. James Block: But sir, we didn't have dinner the other night.
- Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson: Really? Then where the hell was I? And who's this Cheryl? Bah! Doesn't matter.” - From the movie: She Done Him Wrong
“Listen, when women go wrong, men go right after them.”
- From the movie: American Psycho
“Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.”
- From the movie: Reservation Road
“- Lucas: If a man speaks in the middle of the forest with no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
- Brain #1: Yes!”
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