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

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.

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

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now

102 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

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

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

104 Yo, when's the last time you read anything, man? -Never, mother_er.

Nas as Sincere; Nas as Tommy; DMX as Tommy in Belly (1998)

105 Wait. You read? -Well, not excessively.

Peter Sohn as Emile The Rat; Patton Oswalt as Remy The Rat in Ratatouille

106 The judge here is right about that speech. Doc wrote one out for me, all right, but he forgot I couldn't read.

John Wayne as Bob Seton in Dark Command (1940)

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

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear in Yogi Bear

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

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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

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

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

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