126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Sep 1, 2025

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.

11 Because when you read a book as a child, it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

12 If you're very lucky, I might read you some of my poetry first.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

13 And if we're unlucky? -The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

14 Remember how I used to read to you? -Uh-huh. Since then I've learned to read by myself.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

15 We read to know we're not alone.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

16 It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.

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

17 Oh, you lucky dog. You're reading these cool things. I got to go work. Life is so unfair.

Amy Poehler as Joy in Inside Out

18 You guys read. I'll go kill stuff.

Jonah Hill as Snotlout Jorgenson in How to Train Your Dragon

19 That's great! Just finish up, here. Speed read. Take your time. No pressure. There's a lot of pressure! Take a guess, now! With pressure.

Albert Brooks as Marlin in Finding Nemo

20 Wait, you mean read? -While we're still alive?

T.J. Miller as Tuffnut And Ruffnut in How to Train Your Dragon

126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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