126 Movie Quotes about Reading (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 When I start a new book, my hands are shaking. Me eyes are jumping ahead. Does he feel the way I felt? Does he see what I've seen?

Quote from Shadowlands

82 When they tell you read page one, read three more and you'll find that the very next day when you are done the group is way behind.

Boris Karloff as Baron Boris von Frankenstein in Mad Monster Party? (1967)

83 I've just had my whole vacation ruined. We're supposed to read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. and then write a book report about it.

Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

84 But it's such a long book. Look, it's 1136 pages long. I bet it weighs more than I do.

Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

85 For if men do not think, read, talk to each other, above all else, talk, they are no longer men.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

86 Read this most carefully and give me your opinion. -I will read my opinion and give you yours most carefully. Yes.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

87 This is a newspaper, right? It's ninety percent _, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it, because it entertains me.

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

88 Me? Who says so? You can't even read.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

89 If it makes you feel any better, I forgot my reading glasses.

Frank McCallister in Home Alone (1990)

90 I lay in bed for quite a while, reading. And just as I was commencing to get drowsy, I heard dogs howling.

Quote from Dracula (1931)