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

“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

“- Trunchbull: You have brats yourself?
- Mr. Wormwood: Yeah, I got a boy, Mikey, and one mistake, Matilda.
- Trunchbull: They're all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

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

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

“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

“- Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
- Ash: Yeah, basically.
- Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
- Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.”

Ian Abercrombie - Wiseman
Bruce Campbell - Ashley "Ash" J. Williams (Evil Dead series)

“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.

“The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes that you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing. And you want to choose, but there is no choosing there. There's only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago...”
Rubén Blades - Jefe

“A wolf will starve itself to death rather than make a mistake. You have to lay down a scent that smells real from far away. And the bait has to be fresh and untouched by human hands. Make no mistake about it, we are hunting a wolf.”
David Morse - Edgar Clenteen

“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

- Buddy Threadgoode: Think about all the millions of oysters lying around on the bottom of the ocean. Then one day, God comes along and he says "I think I'm gonna make that one different”. And you know what he does? He puts a little piece of sand in it. And guess what it can do that the others can't.
- Idgie Threadgoode: What?
- Buddy... (continue)(continue reading)
Chris O'Donnell - Buddy Threadgoode
Mary Stuart Masterson - Idgie Threadgoode

“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”

Sir Michael Caine - Charlie Croker

“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

“My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.”
Olivia Newton-Jonn

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

“It's not right to go into details, I got nervous. I screwed up, I said the wrong thing... Where if I hadn't, I could be in bed right now with a woman who, if you make her laugh, you got a life. Instead I'm here with you. No offense, but a moron pushing the last legal drug.”

Jack Nicholson - Melvin Udall

“If I cut everyone in my life who made a mistake, I wouldn’t have anyone left.”
Blake Lively - Serena van der Woodsen

“Maybe the mistake we make is thinking our parents will change. And maybe they did a better job than we give them credit for. And maybe there, amid all the crap they dumped on us, are some things worth keeping. Like a passion for something you never knew you had. Or the ability to constantly surround yourself with people who love you.”
Zach Braff - J.D.