132 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 12

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.

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

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

112 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

113 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

114 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.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

115 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)

116 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)

117 You know, it was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. It was when I was 11 that I first read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was then that I realized that I must devote my life to science.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

118 Gads, this comic's a real page-turner. It's slopping over with gripping suspense.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

119 You read Shakespeare? -Read Shakespeare? I know Shakespeare backwards. Listen. Eraepsekahs, eraepsekahs. -Say, that is Shakespeare backwards.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

120 You read the whole encyclopedia? -Uh-huh. From cover to cover to cover...

Russi Taylor as Huey Duck in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)