Expectation quotes

“- Susan Applegate: What do you expect me to do?
- Lucy Hill: Help.”
Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate
Diana Lynn - Lucy Hill

“- Charles Godwin: You're very... I didn't expect it to be like this.
- Elisabeth Laurier: What did you expect?
- Charles Godwin: Last night. I thought - for a moment I thought that...
- Elisabeth Laurier: You thought that I liked it?
- Charles Godwin: Did you?
- Elisabeth Laurier: No. But I could.”

Stephen Dillane - Charles Godwin
Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“- Nayland Smith: What do you expect to find in that tomb?
- Sir Lionel Barton: A record, the golden plate, the threat of Genghis Khan's return, the golden mask he wore, and the famous golden scimitar.”
Lewis Stone - Nayland Smith
Lawrence Grant - Sir Lionel Barton

“- Andrea Beaumont: Hi. Hey, what happened to you? Trip over some loose cash? It's been three days since we met and still no calls. I figured you must be dead or something.
- Batman: You expect every guy you meet to call you up?
- Andrea Beaumont: The ones who are smart enough to dial a phone.”
Dana Delany - Andrea Beaumont
Kevin Conroy - Batman

“You are, quite literally, the last person on Earth that I expected to see.”

David Warner - Stevenson

“- District Officer: There've been a half a dozen complaints since you came to that cafe.
- Bijou: A half-dozen! Why not fifty? I'm surprised.”
Richard Carle - District Officer
Marlene Dietrich - Bijou

“You want life to mean something, and be real and stuff. But then you just get old... and get a job.”
John Doe - Joe Mosely

“The future isn't what it used to be.”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Sam Deed

“- Noodles: Who would've put a penny on you?
- Fat Moe: I'd have put everything I ever had on you.
- Noodles: Yeah, and you would've lost.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

“- Becky Pollard: I don't want to hurt you.
- Leland P. Fitzgerald: Then don't.”
Jena Malone - Becky Pollard

“I can't send a young pretty girl such as you ask on a job like this without telling her what to expect. To go off on a trip for no one knows how long, to some spot you don't even hint at, the only woman on the ship with the toughest mugs I ever looked at.”

Sam Hardy - Charles Weston

“We are working a con, walking the razor's edge. On one side, gold. On the other side... painful, agonizing failure!”
Kevin Kline - Tulio

“What do you think is out there, Maura? A safe little world with your shopping malls, you little league and ballet lessons? Hey! People are killing, Maura. And I'm one of them.”
Aidan Quinn - Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez

“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: I thought you were dead.
- Billy Sparrow: That was the general idea.”
Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
William Hickey - Billy Sparrow

“- Princess Fiona: My groom-to-be Lord Farquaad, what's he like?
- Shrek: Let me put it this way, Princess: men of his stature are in short supply.
- Donkey: Though there are those who think little of him!”
Cameron Diaz - Princess Fiona
Mike Myers - Shrek
Eddie Murphy - Donkey

“You know, what's frightening me is, I'm starting to think that you're not delusional.”

Dennis Miller - Dr. Alan Champion

“We are never quite prepared for so many to die. Oh, we do expect the occasional empty chair. A salute to fallen comrades. But this war goes on and on and the men die and the price gets ever higher. We are prepared to loose some of us, but we are never prepared to loose all of us.”
Martin Sheen - Gen. Robert E. Lee

“- Reepicheep: We were expecting someone taller!
- Trumpkin: You're one to talk.
- Reepicheep: Is that supposed to be irony?”
Eddie Izzard - Reepicheep
Peter Dinklage - Trumpkin

“- Skylar: You were hoping for a good night kiss.
- Will Hunting: No, you know, I'll tell you, I was hoping for a good night lay, but I'd settle for a good night kiss.”
Minnie Driver - Skylar
Matt Damon - Will Hunting

“- Otis: I'm lookin' at you, mama.
- Candy: Yeah, you see something you like?
- Otis: Maybe. I set my standards pretty low, so I'm never disappointed.”
Bill Moseley - Otis
Elizabeth Daily - Candy

“- Matt Reynolds: When I came out to L.A., this isn't exactly where I saw myself ending up.
- Jack Vincennes: Well, get in line.”
Simon Baker - Matt Reynolds
Kevin Spacey - Jack Vincennes

“- Celine Naville: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
- Robert Lewis: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.”
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville
Ewan McGregor - Robert Lewis

“- Labia: Was it as good for you as it was for me?
- Testiculi: I didn't expect the earth to move, but I at least expected you to.
- Labia: You're so romantic...”

Sally Patience - Labia
Des Mangan - Testiculi

“- Rool: That's Raziel?
- Franjean: I don't know, I expected something more grand, less...
- Rool: Fuzzy.
- Franjean: Fuzzy.”

Kevin Pollak - Rool
Rick Overton - Franjean

“- Juno: What's wrong?
- Barbara: We're very unhappy.
- Juno: What did you expect? You're dead!”
Sylvia Sidney - Juno
Geena Davis - Barbara