126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 I'm not going to have to read a book. A Tale of Two Cities was just on TV. I watched the movie, so now I won't have to read the book. The only thing I didn't understand were the parts about shampoo, soap, and coffee. -Those were the commercials, sir.

Phillip Lucier as Peppermint Patty in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

42 Georgie, don't you ever get tired of just reading about things? -Yes.

Gloria Grahame in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

43 I'm going upstairs and read my Bible.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

44 Would you like something to read? -Do you have anything light? -How about this leaflet, Famous Jewish Sports Legends?

Robert Hays as Ted Striker in Airplane (1980)

45 Well, the life of a goat herder is not that demanding, the goats pretty much take care of themselves. Which leaves a man with a great deal of time to read.

Eddie Murphy in Coming to America (1988)

46 I fear that the only way to stop those possessed by the spirits of the book is through the act of bodily dismemberment.

Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in The Evil Dead (1981)

47 You won't let me read it, so you entertain me with your _. Tell me a story right now. Go.

Denzel Washington as Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001)

48 Read it and become the Dragon Warrior.

Jack Black as Po in Kung Fu Panda

49 What do you mean, three Rs? -Well, reading, writing and... and... figuring.

Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy as Ollie in A Chump at Oxford

50 Reading? -Yeah, mother_er. I ain't no criminal. I can read, _.

Ice Cube as Doughboy in Boyz n the Hood

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