Expectation quotes

“I was miserable until you came to Dellwood. I thought everyone's life was like mine, just doing everything you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it, never questioning anything. Ugh, the only thing I could expect when I grew up was a life like my parents' and then... I met you.”

Alison Pill - Ella

“- H.G. Wells: Do you still insist that this is all poppycock?
- Amy Robbins: That's not exactly the word I had in mind.”
Malcom McDowell - H.G. Wells
Mary Steenburgen - Amy Robbins

“Wot yer expect me to do - pick violets?”
Donald Crisp - Battling Burrows

“- Kyle: Rich daddy equals expectations. Expectations are like a fungal rot on a marriage.
- Tom: Our marriage is not going to have a 'fungal rot'.
- Kyle: Unless she finds out you slaughtered her dog!
[laughs, then stops, seeing Tom's expression]
- Kyle: Oh, don't worry, I'll take that to my grave.”
David Moscow - Kyle
Ashton Kutcher - Tom

“What do you want to be in the world? I mean the whole world. Close your eyes and think about that.”
Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

“- Charles J. Rittenhouse: I thought everybody was killed. I never expected to see you alive.
- Connie Porter: You know I'm practically immortal, Ritt.”
Henry Hull - Charles J. Rittenhouse
Tallulah Bankhead - Connie Porter

“You hope, and you dream. But you never believe that something's gonna happen for you. Not like it does in the movies. And when it actually does, you want it to feel different, more visceral, more real.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard

“Things rarely go according to one's youthful, heroic master plans.”
David O'Hara - Sean Kelly

“I've been expecting you.”

Curd Jürgens - Stromberg

You cannot say to the sun "More sun". Or to the rain "Less rain".
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“The funny thing about people, one time out of a hundred they turn out better than you expect.”
Bruce Willis - John Smith

“Audiences know what they expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - The Player

“All I want - all I have ever wanted - is the quiet of a private life, but, eh, my mother is determined to see me distinguished.”
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars

“Why do we always expect home to stay the same? Nothing else does.”
Anton Yelchin - Bobby Garfield

“- Katarina Stratford: I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?
- Patrick Verona: So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?”
Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford
Heath Ledger - Patrick Verona

“That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We're black and black people don't tip. So she wasn't gonna waste her time. Now somebody like that? Nothing you can do to change their mind.”
Ludacris - Anthony

“- Juan Seguin: They are gonna want you humble, General.
- Sam Houston: I humble myself before God and there the list ends.”

Jordi Mollà - Juan Seguin
Dennis Quaid - Sam Houston

“- Carmichael: Is she turning out as well as you expected?
- Anthony Powell: She may have possibilities, but right now she's a rank amateur! About as emotional as a fish.”

Pierre Watkin - Carmichael
Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

There's a saying in Naples: "When you think you're fucking them, they're fucking you".
Michael Wincott - Michael Korda

“I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order!”
Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak

“- Terry: Do you not even want me to come visit now?
- Sammy: Of course I want you to visit, you idiot! I've been looking forward to seeing you from the moment I got your letter, I told everyone in town that you were coming home, I cleaned the whole fucking house just so it would look nice for you! I had no idea you were just broke again! I wish...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark Ruffalo - Terry
Laura Linney - Sammy

- Starcat: You don't know what it's like having everybody think you're the golden boy - perfectly smart, perfectly athletic. You can't imagine the pressure.
- Florence "Chicklet" Forrest: And I thought all those people starving in India had it bad.
Nicholas Brendon - Starcat
Lauren Ambrose - Florence 'Chicklet' Forrest

“I did what everyone said a kid couldn't do! I made it to Shell City, and I beat the Cyclops, and I rode the Hasselhoff, and I brought the crown back!”
Tom Kenny - SpongeBob

“Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance.”
Jared Leto - Hephaistion

“- Kate Wheeler: You can't just step in front of a moving car and expect it to stop!
- Terry Collins: Yes you can! I've seen it done!”
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins