143 Movie Quotes about Books with Audio – Page 5

Updated: Oct 26, 2026

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41 Pornography, Doggy! I was reading the wrong book, forget all you heard. It might take your mind off the job, and that would never do, would it?

Quote from Drunken Dragon

42 I'm not going to have to read a book. A Tale of Two Cities was just on TV. I watched the movie, so now I won't have to read the book. The only thing I didn't understand were the parts about shampoo, soap, and coffee. -Those were the commercials, sir.

Phillip Lucier as Peppermint Patty in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

43 I wrote a biography on Admiral Halsey called The Fighting Sailor, about naval combat tactics. -I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly.

Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan; Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

44 So he says, 'How would you like to be rich?' So I said, 'Sure.' So he lays this book on me.

Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II

45 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.

Quote from Jungle Fever

46 You _in' people baffle me. You spend all your money on these _in' fancy books. You surround yourselves with 'em. They're the wrong _in' books.

Matt Damon as Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting

47 What are the right _in' books? -Hey, whatever blows your hair back. -Yeah. Haven't got much hair left.

Matt Damon as Will Hunting; Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

48 I'm not afraid. My mind will protect me. I'm a man of science, a man of learning, a man who knows how to buy the finest books.

Matthew Perry as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

49 Well, are you sure you're doing the right thing? You know what happens to girls like you when they read books like mine. They begin to think. That's bad.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

50 In the 25-cent book business, you can sell anything, even the old classics, no matter how dreary they are.

Quote from The Seven Year Itch (1952)