- A book? What do you want a book for?
- To read.
- To read? Why would you wanna read when you got the TV set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.
— Harry Wormwood (Danny Devito)
14 seconds sound clip from the Matilda (1996) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:04:17.157 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Soup's on the stove. Heat it up if you get hungry.
- Matilda was left alone. That was how she liked it.
- By the time she was 4, Matilda had read every magazine in the house.
- One night, she got up her courage and asked her father for something she desperately wanted.
- A book? What do you want a book for?
- To read.
- Matilda already knew that she was somewhat different from her family.
- She saw that whatever she needed in this world she'd have to get herself.
- Bye.
- Ciao! There's fish fingers in the microwave.
[...]