132 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

1 Suffering sassafras. He's sailing clean out of the book! Quick! Turn the page!

Quote from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 Why read words when you can just kill the stuff the words tell you stuff about?

Jonah Hill as Snotlout Jorgenson in How to Train Your Dragon

3 It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

4 She helped me learn how to read, and I showed her how to swing.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

5 If that's a children's book, that mean's it's too advanced for the likes of you.

Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie in Cool Runnings

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

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

7 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)

8 I can't read human. -Well, then we gotta find a fish that can read this.

Albert Brooks as Marlin; Ellen DeGeneres as Dory in Finding Nemo

9 You like to read minds? I got something for you to read, right here!

Lewis Black as Anger in Inside Out

10 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