132 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

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.

91 Input! More input! -OK. No problem. Um... Volume two, no problem.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)

92 This is a newspaper, right? It's ninety percent _, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it, because it entertains me.

Denzel Washington as Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001)

93 How can you read this? There's no pictures.

Gaston From Beauty And The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

94 Me? Who says so? You can't even read.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

95 If it makes you feel any better, I forgot my reading glasses.

Frank Mccallister in Home Alone (1990)

96 I lay in bed for quite a while, reading. And just as I was commencing to get drowsy, I heard dogs howling.

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)

97 Where did you learn how to do that? -I read the instructions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)

98 I'm afraid. I've read this over and over again, but they're just words that I can't understand. Listen.

Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931)

99 What are you like, five years old? -Yeah. But I read at a six-year-old level, so...

Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett; Mila Kunis as Lori Collins in Ted (2012)

100 You're able to read this? -A little. It's my profession.

Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius in Forbidden Planet (1956)