Reading quotes

“- Kate Moseley: If you're so bored, why don't you read?
- Doug Dorsey: What, you mean like a book?
- Kate Moseley: That is a traditionally accepted format, yes.”
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey

“- Tommy: The human body hasn't got used to dairy products yet.
- Turkish: Well fuck me, Tommy. What have you been reading?”
Stephen Graham - Tommy
Jason Statham - Turkish

“Read, read, read, read! Let me tell you something - last time I read a book, I was raped. Let that be a lesson to you.”

Madeline Kahn - Betty

“- Elliot Richards: You can't read that, that's private stuff!
- The Devil: You're telling me, listen to this. Last night was the most incredible night of my life. I never did get any of the guys' names, but I brought them back home and all five of them banged me like a Salvation Army drum.
- Elliot Richards: What?
- The Devil: Kidding.”

Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards
Liz Hurley - The Devil

“I believe the characters we read on the page become more real than the men who stand beside us.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Kate Moseley: What was the last book you read? You were in college?
- Doug Dorsey: The last thing I read in college was the letter canceling my scholarship when I couldn't play anymore.
- Kate Moseley: Okay, high school.
- Doug Dorsey: I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard.”
Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
D.B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey

“- Leonard Shelby: How can you read that again?
- Leonard's Wife: It's good.
- Leonard Shelby: Yeah, but you read it like a thousand times.
- Leonard's Wife: I enjoy it.
- Leonard Shelby: I always thought the pleasure of a book is not knowing what happens next.
- Leonard's Wife: Hey, don't be a prick. I'm not reading it to annoy you, I enjoy it....” (continue)(continue reading)
Guy Pearce - Leonard Shelby
Jorja Fox - Leonard's Wife

“The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.”
Anthony George Newley

- Chaz: Hi, what're you reading?
- Nan: Milton's "Paradise Lost", for Professor Russo's course in English epic. You know, it's a shame; it's a dying form.
- Chaz: Dying...
- Nan: Not too many people read it nowadays, even in college.
Clayton Rohner - Chaz
Leah Pinsent - Nan

“- Berger: You ever read the papers?
- Kevin Caffrey: I used to, but the news kept changing.”
John Leguizamo - Berger
Martin Lawrence - Kevin Caffery

“I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.”
Françoise Hardy

“- Miss Ungermeyer: Mr. Craft, have you even started on your summer reading list?
- Ethan Craft: I finished it.
- Miss Ungermeyer: You read eleven books?
- Ethan Craft: I mean I read the list!”
Alex Borstein - Miss Ungermeyer
Clayton Snyder - Ethan Craft

- Veronica Vaughn: We're going to start today by reading together a short story entitled "My Sister Fanny".
[the class laughs]
- Veronica Vaughn: Quiet. So let's all open our "Reading Is Fun" books to page sixty nine.
- Billy Madison: Sixty nine!
[laughs]
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras - Veronica Vaughn
Adam Sandler - Billy Madison

“You've heard the story of Jesse James of how he lived and died, if your still in need of something to read heres the story of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Faye Dunaway - Bonnie Parker

I've seen that you're maybe one of, I don't know, three people in the world that likes pizza-flavored chips. You're also the only person I've ever seen that spends more time on the roof of her house than in her actual house. And what are you doing? You're reading. Books. You know, not "US Weekly" or "Seventeen", or, you know... but you're... (continue)(continue reading)

Shia LaBeouf - Kale

“- Janine Melnitz: I read a lot myself. Some people think I'm too intellectual but I think it's a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play raquetball. Do you have any hobbies?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: I collect spores, molds, and fungus.”
Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler

“What do you mean by reading a book? Suppose you learn something. Loyal Moronicans shouldn't read. Take your troops out and have them burn every book in Moronica.”
Moe Howard - Moe Hailstone

“Tell me the truth. Does anybody actually finish a book once they have formed an opinion of it?”
Sarah Jessica Parker - Sarah Geldhart

“- Lola Burns: How do you think I enjoy reading all that scandal that hasn't an ounce of truth in it?
- Space Hanlon: I've told you, sugar, it isn't what you like to read. It's what the public likes to read.”
Jean Harlow - Lola Burns
Lee Tracy - Space Hanlon

“- Jordan: A study at Harvard determined a person's longevity by the first thing they read in the paper.
- Detective Regis: I'm an obituary man.
- Jordan: Start with the comics; you'll live longer.”
Alan Alda - Jordan
Wesley Snipes - Detective Regis

“I'm a little more confident when I have a script.”
Allen Covert

“I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.”
Giancarlo Esposito

“- Tom Welles: Wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of your fellow perverts.
- Max California: That's right. I might get drummed out of the Pornographer's Union. Where would I be then?”

Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix - Tom Welles

“- Jacob Fuller: Has anybody here read a real book about vampires, or are we just remembering what a movie said? I mean a real book.
- Sex Machine: You mean like a Time-Life book?”
Harvey Keitel - Jacob Fuller
Tom Savini - Sex Machine

“If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.”
John Lithgow