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

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.

71 Every day I see you reading. What's with this reading? Some guy makes up some story... _ 'em! It's a waste of time.

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

72 Well, are you sure you're doing the right thing? You know what happens to girls like you when they read books like mine. They begin to think. That's bad.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

73 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

74 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

75 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

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

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

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

Talia Shire as Adrian Balboa; Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

78 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.

Richard Derr as David Randall in When Worlds Collide (1951)

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

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

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

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