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

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

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

Frank Mccallister in Home Alone (1990)

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

Quote from Dracula (1931)

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

Quote from Commando (1985)

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

Quote from Frankenstein (1931)

96 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)

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

Quote from Forbidden Planet (1956)

98 And the more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him.

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now

99 You'll be free. You'll be under guard. Read these at your leisure. Don't lose them.

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

100 With a great big valise full of books to read where it's peaceful while I'm killing time being lazy.

Quote from Holiday Inn (1942)