Expectation quotes

“Nothin' happened the way it was supposed to happen.”
Will Smith - Neville

“I think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Reynolds Woodcock

“In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.”
Jeff Bridges

“Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?”

Sam Neill - Grant

“Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.”
Michael Landon

“Your expectations for your son may change over time, they might include marriage, children, self-sufficiency. They might not. But I guarantee you, if we let the world set expectations for our children, they'll start low, and they'll stay there. And maybe... Just maybe... He doesn't understand how to tell us. Or... we haven't yet learned how to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jason Davis - Neurologist

“Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't, and at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“My life didn't turn out the way I expected.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“- Katherine Ann Watson: You can confirm to what other people expect of you, or...
- Betty Warren: Be ourselves.”
Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson
Kirsten Dunst - Betty Warren

“- Katarina Stratford: You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
- Bianca Stratford: I happen to like being adored, thank you!”
Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford
Larisa Oleynik - Bianca Stratford

“There are certain things you should expect from a president. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“- Jareth: Beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel.
- Sarah: Generous? What have you done that's generous?
- Jareth: Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Bowie - Jareth
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah

“When you expect nothing and get everything, that’s destiny.”
Damian Chapa - Miklo

“The definition of insanity is repeating the same behaviour over and over again, expecting different results.”
Frank Hoyt Taylor - Equine Therapist

“You know when you see a fine hunny in the club, she lookin’ all good and shit under the lights and you start grindin’ on her, then the next day you go to pick her up, you're all happy and shit, but is high noon, she comes outta house and a fucking sea donkey clunks into your car!”
Jamie Foxx - Bunz

“If you're a normal director, you hope that people will love your film, and it will be released in many countries-and yet, it's a surprise when it happens. ”
Yann Samuell

“Even trash has its pride. If someone has expectations for us.. then we need to meet them.”
Ken'ichirô Matsuda - Shiketsu High School Teacher

“In the beginning of a journey, no one knows what to expect.”
Keir Gilchrist - Sam Gardner

“You need to stop freaking out because you're not where you thought you would be, in life or in our business. It's real life, lower your expectations.”
Kat Dennings - Max Black

“He's a fox, and foxes have a predictable nature. Trust this Jew about that Jew. If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere.”

Michelle Dockery - Rosalind Pearson

“- Sherry Wilson: I asked for nothing, I expected nothing and I got nothing.
- Vince Everett: What'd you expect for nothing?”
Jennifer Holden - Sherry Wilson
Elvis Presley - Vince Everett

“- Comic Man: You’re living in a carnival, hoping to win a prize. What are you going to win?
- Sam: Under the Silver Lake.”
Patrick Fischler - Comic Man
Andrew Garfield - Sam

“Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.”
Edmund Gwenn - Capt. Albert Wiles

“People read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.”
Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen

“- Donald Horner: So am I different to what you expected?
- Emily Walters: Hmm. Perhaps. You seem...
- Donald Horner: Go on.
- Emily Walters: Cleaner.
- Donald Horner: That's honest.”
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner
Diane Keaton - Emily Walters