136 Movie Quotes about Books (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

11 Oh, this book is so neat. It has, like, all the stuff I'm interested in. Great. The weirdo encyclopedia.

Joey Zimmerman as Dylan Piper; Kimberly J. Brown as Marnie Piper in Halloweentown

12 A book? Well, I guess that means you boys can read.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

13 Ah! More input, Stephanie. More! -There isn't any more. You've read everything in the house.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot; Ally Sheedy as Stephanie Speck in Short Circuit (1986)

14 Right. And I took your garbage for 30 years until I could steal that book so that my son could become the leader.

Quote from Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)

15 What's this? You, uh, readin' this book? Do me a favor, okay? Don't read this book. Okay? Thank you very much.

Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini in My Cousin Vinny

16 Course, I don't have my books. Course, there are no bookshelves. I'm definitely out of books. I'm gonna be bookless.

Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man (1988)

17 What you getting at with the books, scripts? Spit that _ out, man!

Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

18 You too, too? Hmm. Wait a minute. What's your favorite book? -The Brothers Karamazov.

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz; Dom DeLuise as Tiger in An American Tail

19 So I am. But you too can be tall. Buy my book, How to be Three Inches Taller. -Then what? -Stand on it.

Peter Sellers as Grytpype Thynne in The Goon Show

20 So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail