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

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.

81 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.

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

82 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.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

83 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?

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

84 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)

85 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.

Chad Allen as Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

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

Chad Allen as Charlie Brown in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

87 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)

88 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)

89 What is this trash you're reading? -It's not trash, Daddy, it's lovely. It's called Moby _, by Herman Melville. -Moby what?

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

90 I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Sit up and look at the TV.

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)