30 Movie Quotes about Expectations (Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

22 This is it. -This? It just looks like a patch of ordinary weeds.

Jodi Benson as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994)

23 Aw, come on. You can't fool us. -A genie's supposed to grant wishes. -Yeah! Three wishes for every master.

Quote from DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

24 And next time I see this dog, I expect it to be a model citizen... Capisce? -Uh... Yes?

Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles in Lilo & Stitch (2002)

25 But a man expects his wife to... -To behave herself. Naturally. -To behave herself naturally. Sorry.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

26 Your recommendations said I could depend on a lack of curiosity.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

27 Well, your sponsors expect big things from you. -Just the Heavyweight Championship of the World, that's all. Right, Cash? -Yes, sir, Mr. Hollis.

Quote from The Greatest (1977)

28 Well, I'm not lookin' for a mail-order bride. I just want somebody that I can have a decent conversation with over dinner without it fallin' down into weepy tears over some movie. -She's just so very emotional.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

29 I've seen this happen on holidays before. You look forward to being real happy, and then something happens that spoils it all.

Peppermint Patty in It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

30 You will discover that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)