11 Movie Quotes about Librarians (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

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

1 Andy had transformed a storage room smelling of rat turds and turpentine into the best prison library in New England...

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

2 And it wasn't that she was just selling books. It was that she was helping people become whoever it was they were going to turn out to be.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

3 Seventy percent of all archeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

4 I cause no trouble. The prison authorities appreciate that. They made me assistant librarian.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

5 Miss Gordon, do you have any volumes at the Gotham City Public Library on the occult sciences? -Any number of them.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

6 I once worked in the library in the Prado in Madrid, but it didn't teach me nothin', I recall.

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

7 I'll run over to the library and change the book.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

8 Shaolin rules are strict. I'm forbidden to enter many of the temple halls. Especially the library. Everyone is checked before being allowed to enter.

Quote from Shaolin Plot (1977)

9 I wonder. Could I go to the library and look myself up in the old newspaper archives?

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part III

10 All you do is eat and sleep. I want you to get some education. Here's my library card. Why don't you go down there and take out a few books? It's time you learned how to do something besides eating and sleeping.

Michael Mandy as Charlie Brown in It's Magic, Charlie Brown

11 Movie Quotes about Librarians (+ Sound Clips)

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