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Quotes About Mix-up

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
~ Mel Gibson
It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?
~ Agatha Christie
On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.
~ Constance Zimmer
This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
~ Janet Maslin
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."
~ Steven Wright
40Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.
~ Ceciil Baldwin
I often got sword fighting and tennis confused.
~ Rick Riordan
Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
~ Jennifer Echols
You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?
~ Lorrie Moore
One day I changed my cell phone number, but the guy at the UFC in charge of the music didn't know. So he was texting that fan who had my old number, thinking it was me. The fan was selecting my music.
~ Rory MacDonald
One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.
~ Slash
Last time I called shotgun we had rented a limo, so I messed up!
~ Mitch Hedberg
On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
~ Marc Guggenheim
Then you panic because you've never known the difference between a sweet potato and a yam and both are on the counter, and if you start making a yam pie you'll never hear the end of it.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
~ Vicki Lawrence
Q: What did the nurse say when she found a rectal thermometer in her pocket? A: "Some asshole has my pen.
~ Scott McNeely
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?
~ Augusten Burroughs
somehow, I must have given you my dog, Poppy, instead of Shaz." "Thanks a lot," Zoey said. "This damn dog has been barfing for ten minutes. She barfed all over the car, herself, me, it's everywhere. It's disgusting.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
This is from Payroll Division: I wasn't even teaching in June, and I certainly don't have $2.75. Apparently they don't know I'm file # 443-817 and have got me confused with another–possibly # 443-818?
~ Bel Kaufman
In late 1998, the stock of a tiny, rarely traded building-maintenance company, Temco Services, nearly tripled in a matter of minutes on record-high volume. Why? In a bizarre form of financial dyslexia, thousands of traders bought Temco after mistaking its ticker symbol, TMCO, for that of Ticketmaster Online (TMCS), an Internet darling whose stock began trading publicly for the first time that day.8 Oscar Wilde joked that a cynic "knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
~ Benjamin Graham
For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys.
~ David Thewlis
She must have read Shaw's story a few years before. Yes, that must have been it. She had read the story and clearly enjoyed it, to the extent that she had copied it, verbatim, into a notebook reserved for that purpose. Then, finding an assignment due for my class, she had paged through said notebook, stumbled across Shaw's narrative, and forgotten that Shaw, rather than Tara Tappani, was its rightful author. A simple mix-up.
~ Julie Schumacher