126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

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.

101 Junior, go over and shoot your daddy for a while. I'm readin'.

Quote from Yogi Bear

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

Quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

103 Oh, isn't it a shame I can neither sew, nor cook, nor read, nor write my name?

Quote from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

104 I just remembered something frightening. -What? -I cannot read.

Zero Mostel as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

105 Tell me something. Tell me one thing that I don't know that's important from all your reading.

Quote from Jungle Fever

106 I could use something to read. A nice quiet horror story. -Might be kind of tame for you, sir.

Dewey Martin in The Thing from Another World

107 They get those weak eyes from reading. You know, those long, tiny little columns in The Wall Street Journal.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

108 Oh, could I keep the book until you come out? I only have a few pages to go. I know the end. I always read that first. -Sure. Take your time.

Quote from In a Lonely Place

109 Now, what is this anyway? I came home to settle down, not to go ice-skating. Leave me alone. All I wanna do is lie around the house and read the paper.

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

110 I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes. If you don't mind what kind of a book it is.

Lizabeth Scott as Antonia "Toni" Marachek in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)