Mistake quotes

“Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something.”
Mary Pickford

“The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.”
Joaquin Phoenix

“I'm saying you've already done plenty of things to regret, you just don't know what they are. It's when you discover them, when you see the folly in something you've done, and you wish that you had it do over, but you know you can't, because it's too late. So you pick that thing up, and carry it with you to remind you that life goes on, the...” (continue) (continue reading)
Danny DeVito - Phil Cooper

“I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“The only mistake I ever made was to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you Secretary of Defense. However, that is a mistake, I am happy to say, that I don't have to live with. Mr. Nimzicki... you're fired.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.”
Paul Newman

“One thing about how the media likes to show us at our worst is, you figure why be on best behavior all the time when all it takes is one slip-up?”
Robert Downey Jr.

“We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.”
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone

“Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.”
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba

“You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it.”
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato

“- Violet Newstead: I guess I must've made a mistake.
- Doralee Rhodes: You steal the wrong body from the hospital and all you can say is I must have made a mistake!
- Violet Newstead: It could happen to anyone.”
Lily Tomlin - Violet Newstead
Dolly Parton - Doralee Rhodes

“- Madison Bell: So, what you're saying is that making love to me was a mistake?
- Ben Cronin: Yes.”
Erika Christensen - Madison Bell
Jesse Bradford - Ben Cronin

“The freak with the top hat is leaving with the basketball.”
Stacy Keach - The Narcs: Sergeant Stedenko

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
Joan Rivers

“It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.”
Garry Marshall

“- Philip Lacasse: People make mistakes.
- Dell Scott: I don't know. I've made so many.”
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott

“- Jesse Pinkman: I want to put things right.
- Mike Ehrmantraut: Sorry kid, that’s the one thing you can never do.”
Aaron Paul - Jesse Pinkman
Jonathan Banks - Mike Ehrmantraut

“So many times in my life I screwed up: I've talked when I should've listened, I've been harsh when I should've been tender.”
Brad Pitt - Roy McBride

“- Paolo: You just saunter out of your house one fine morning and pluck God out of the air as easily as catching a butterfly. It's all too simple.
- St. Francis of Assisi: If what you say is true then the Holy Father will point out errors in my faith.”
Kenneth Cranham - Paolo
Graham Faulkner - St. Francis of Assisi

“- Marie: You made one mistake.
- Hank: It wasn't one mistake. I've been... unraveling, y'know? I don't sleep at night anymore. I freeze, I freeze up. My chest gets all tight, I can't breathe. Just...I panic. Ever since that Salamanca thing. Tuco Salamanca, if ever a scumbag deserved a bullet between the eyes... It changed me and I can't seem to...” (continue) (continue reading)

Betsy Brandt - Marie Schrader
Dean Norris - Hank Schrader

“I feel like maybe you want me to kiss you right now but I don't want to make the same stupid mistake I made 25 years ago.”

Seth Rogen - Fred Flarsky

“- Alita: You made the biggest mistake of your life.
- Vector: And what's that?
- Alita: Underestimating who I am.”
Rosa Salazar - Alita
Mahershala Ali - Vector

“- Sam Brewster: You got him in the arm
- Crane Adams: I aimed for his Reb heart.
- Sam Brewster: Your performance is never up to your intentions.”
Pat Hingle - Sam Brewster
David Clifford - Crane Adams

“God was wrong!”
James Mason - Ed Avery

“I would rather make the gravest of mistakes than surrender my own judgment.”
Madeleine Stowe - Cora Munro