30 Movie Quotes about Expectations (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about expectations, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 You built up all our hopes. -You got us all exciterated. -And what'd we get? Huh? A bunch of rocks.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

12 I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed.

King Triton in The Little Mermaid (1989)

13 I will return tomorrow night with high expectations. Pray you don't disappoint me.

Peter O’Toole as Anton Ego in Ratatouille

14 When we got adopted by a bald guy, I thought this'd be more like Annie.

Quote from Despicable Me

15 When I order cheesecake, I don't expect to get mucilage.

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue in All Through the Night (1942)

16 I thought this was an easy job. It sounds like D-day.

Harry Belafonte as Johnny Ingram in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

17 Well, what do you want, kid, a shout, a holler and a cigar, for doing something halfway right for once? -No, I guess not.

Lee Marvin as Sergeant Edgar Millen in Death Hunt

18 I don't understand why they're not happy. We have so much now. I thought their lives would be better: they're doing nothing.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

19 That's your problem. You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Rosie Odonnell in Sleepless in Seattle

20 So, he can't write. Big deal. Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy and our pathetic need for it is what gets us into so much trouble.