126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 What's wrong about a book? -I'll not be remembered for a pack of lies.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

72 Your father must have taught you some kung fu. -He taught me to read. He never taught me kung fu.

Quote from Dragon on Shaolin Tower

73 He'd been teaching the same rubbish for 30 years and I don't suppose he'd read a new book for 20 of those.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

74 You cost us thousands of dollars because you can't read.

Quote from Rocky II

75 You read nice. -Thank you. You lie nice. -Thank you.

Quote from Rocky II

76 When I was a kid, I read a book about the world coming to an end. I remember being so scared, I didn't dare go to sleep. And in the morning, the sun came out, and everything looked so wonderful, I forgot the story. Life was beautiful all over again.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

77 It felt like about 10 pages. 75's pretty much our limit.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

78 I never met a woman who liked Jules Verne before.

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

79 So reading is a waste of time? -No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.

Quote from Shadowlands

80 Most of these books are stolen. Why not? They're written to be read. At least I read them, which is more than most people do.