126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about reading, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

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

Quote from Finding Nemo

8 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

9 It's called reading. Top to bottom, left to right. Group words together as a sentence. Take Tylenol for any headaches, Midol for any cramps.

David Spade as Richard in Tommy Boy (1995)

10 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