Expectation quotes

“I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.”
Sally Hawkins

“With low expectations, it's very easy to surprise people.”
Pamela Anderson

“I think, Doctor, that you expect too much of people. If you do you'll always be disappointed.”
Betty Linley - Mrs. Montgomery

“Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines

“You know, when I first came up, Casey and everybody gave me so much pressure, saying I was going to be the next Joe DiMaggio, so they gave me the number 6, right? Ruth was 3, Gehrig was 4, DiMaggio was 5, and me, number 6. I hated that. And the press, they were all over me, calling me a hillbilly. I was, I mean, I came in with a $4 suitcase and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thomas Jane - Mickey Mantle

“- Steve Jobs: You didn't have seconds, you had three weeks. The universe was created in a third of that time.
- Andy Hertzfeld: Well, someday you'll have to tell us how you did it.”
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Michael Stuhlbarg - Andy Hertzfeld

- "Jackie-O" Pascal: Sorry about that, by the way, I didn't mean to maim you. I only meant to kill you.
- Marty Pascal: These things happen.
Parker Posey - "Jackie-O" Pascal
Josh Hamilton - Marty Pascal

“- Robert McCall: I thought you were retired.
- Susan Plummer: Oh, I am. Just like you’re dead.”
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall
Melissa Leo - Susan Plummer

“- Nux: He turned his head. He looked me straight in the eye.
- Slit: He was scanning the horizon.
- Nux: No, I am awaited. I am awaited in Valhalla!”

Nicholas Hoult - Nux
Josh Helman - Slit

“I know I'm not the wizard that you expected, but I might just be the wizard that you need.”

James Franco - Oz

“- Hannah: Maybe now would be a good time to go over what you expect of me.
- Anastasia Steele: I expect you to call me Ana. I don't expect you to fetch me coffee unless you're getting some for yourself. And the rest we'll just make up as we go along.”
Ashleigh LaThrop - Hannah
Dakota Johnson - Anastasia Steele

“- Orson Welles: I expected better of you, Mank.
- Herman Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.”
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz

“- Barley: I'm not the man you thought I was.
- Dante: You do not have to remind me that man is not equal to his rhetoric.”
Sir Sean Connery - Barley
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Dante

“- Sam: Do you really think you'll be ready for opening tomorrow?
- Riggan: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, previews were pretty much a train-wreck. We can't seem to get through without a raging fire or a raging hard-on. I'm broke. I'm not sleeping like, you know, at all. And um, this play is kinda starting to feel like a major deformed version...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Stone - Sam
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“Oh, what a day... what a lovely day!”

Nicholas Hoult - Nux

“- Mike: You'll see. Things have changed, Larry. You have to take the bad with the good. You didn't think everything was gonna be perfect, did you?
- Larry Burrows: Well, I suppose not.
- Mike: This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.”
Sir Michael Caine - Mike
Jim Belushi - Larry Burrows

“- Brett Dolan: When someone hands you your dreams you take it. You don't ask questions.
- Nora: I would.
- Brett Dolan: You think you would.”
Josh Henderson - Brett Dolan
Jenna Dewan Tatum - Nora Clark

“I came with low expectations and I was disappointed.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.”
Michael Landon

“I feel like I'm still a kid practically, but your teachers and your parents and everybody's got everything planned out for you with high expectations. But what if it has nothing to do with you? You lose track of yourself, and that's fake!”

Erika Christensen - Hannah Kingsley

“Set your watch, Brandt. Ethan Hunt's living his last days as a free man.”
Alec Baldwin - Alan Hunley

“I really look so different off the screen that at a recent luncheon a certain prominent Hollywood actress who sat next to me didn't recognize me and all through luncheon accepted me as a girl apparently trying to break into pictures and gave me words of advice and warning. But when someone told her my name was Merle Oberon she became embarassed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Oberon

“Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.”
Eve Arden

“We will know soon enough if you are Leonardo da Vinci or just think you are.”
Seth Rogen - Steve Wozniak

“Never try to fool children. They expect nothing and therefore see everything.”
Harvey Keitel - Harry Houdini