39 Movie Quotes about Expectations (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

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

Richard Derr as David Randall in When Worlds Collide (1951)

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

Ernest Borgnine as Angelo Dundee in The Greatest (1977)

33 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

34 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)

35 See, I'm afraid I sort of exaggerated in my letters. I showed off a little, you know. She's expecting to meet a pretty important man. Well, I'm in no mood to act important tonight.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

36 Oh, yeah? Well, a man is entitled to come home and find dinner on the table without having to wade through a convention of male strippers!

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

37 Doc, this is like a parachute. It's gotta work the first time. -Right.

William Hopper as Robert Calder in 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

38 Is that it? -That's it, all right. -The gold, I mean. -It sure don't look like I thought it would. -It's not much different than sand. -Yeah, it's just like plain sand.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

39 It don't glitter. I thought it would glitter. -Oh, it'll glitter when it's refined. That's some other guy's job. All we got to do is mine it and get it back there.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre