“- Daisy Werthan: You know your letters don't you?
- Hoke Colburn: Oh yeah, yeah I know my abc's pretty good, just can't read.
- Daisy Werthan: Stop saying that you're making me mad! If you know your letters you can read. You just don't know you can read.”
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn

“- Sincere: Yo, when's the last time you read anything, man?
- Tommy 'Buns' Bundy: Never, motherfucker.”
Nas - Sincere
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy

“- Donkey: Stairs? I thought we were lookin' for the Princess.
- Shrek: The Princess will be up the stairs in the highest room in the tallest tower.
- Donkey: How do you know that?
- Shrek: I read it in a book once.”

Eddie Murphy - Donkey
Mike Myers - Shrek

“- E. Garner Goodman: How much do you know about the death penalty?
- Adam Hall: I've read everything there is.
- E. Garner Goodman: Then you know nothing.”
Robert Prosky - E. Garner Goodman
Chris O'Donnell - Adam Hall

“- Betty Schaefer: Oh, the old familiar story. You help a timid little soul cross a crowded street, she turns out to be a multimillionaire and leaves you all her money.
- Joe Gillis: That's the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots.”
Nancy Olson - Betty Schaefer
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis