Reading quotes

“I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.”
Jennifer Coolidge

- Dr. Alice Howland: I need something to read.
- Dr. John Howland: I thought you were reading "Moby Dick".
- Dr. Alice Howland: Yeah, I was. But I got tired of reading the same page over and over again. I can't focus.
- Dr. John Howland: Well, that happens to me when I read "Moby Dick" too.
Julianne Moore - Dr. Alice Howland
Alec Baldwin - Dr. John Howland

“- Aunt Agnes: What is that you're reading? Show me.
- Cedric: It's the new E. M. Forster novel.
- Aunt Agnes: Oh! Not another of them! Is it amusing?
- Cedric: Why, I find it difficult to identify with the characters, but the locations are quite enchanting.”
Prunella Scales - Aunt Agnes
Robert Portal - Cedric

“- Phil Blackwood: You're reading one of my books... I thought you were strictly Proust and Dostoevsky?
- Nina Lonescu: Well, I could not go to sleep last night and I knew this would help.”
Tom Selleck - Phil Blackwood
Paulina Porizkova - Nina Lonescu

“- 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

“If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.”
Vincente Minnelli

“I found an article about a thing called prostitution. I read it three times. It's one of the most interesting things I've ever come across.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

“Mr. Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers, Mr. Bernstein. He knows what's wrong with every issue since I've taken charge.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“Can I give you a little bit of advice, Jack? If you took one-tenth of the time you spend on killing people and devoted it to reading a book now and then, I really think you would derive great benefit. Don't you?”
Robert De Niro - Dragna

“- Eleanor: You know, I read recently in Reader's Digest that people who let themselves cry when they're hurting are often stronger than the people who try to hold all their pain inside.
- Davey: Did you read anything about a deformed referee who spends 35 years trying to win some stupid patch, so he can pretend people actually like him?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Adam Sandler - Eleanore
Adam Sandler - Davey

“After I read your book I realized how many other women were in the same situation. I mustered the courage to talk to my friend and she told me, to my suprise, that the feelings were mutual.”

Lynn Redgrave - Final Interview Subject

“I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.”
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“You're interrupting my reading enjoyment! I'm going elsewhere!”
Jeremy Maes - The Licker

“Before you ladies get pregnant and you gentlemen murder one another you'll learn the joy of reading. This way, you have something to do in your ninth month or in your jail cell.”
Francesca P. Roberts - Miss Higgins

“- Adam Stubbs: Whatcha reading about?
- May Dove Canady: Amputation.
- Adam Stubbs: Is that for work?
- May Dove Canady: Nope. It's just for fun.”
Jeremy Sisto - Adam Stubbs
Angela Bettis - May Dove Canady

“Just because he reads all them books and he knows all them big words don't make him smart!”

Scott Caan - Cole Younger

It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with "He dies". And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He dies". but because of the life we saw prior to the words.

Dustin Hoffman - Mr. Edward Magorium

“- Ava Gardner: You listened to my phone calls?
- Howard Hughes: No! No! No! Honey I would never do that! I'd never do that! I... I just read the transcripts, that's all.”
Kate Beckinsale - Ava Gardner
Leonardo DiCaprio - Howard Hughes

“- Pintel: You know you can't read.
- Ragetti: It's the bible, you get credit for tryin'.”
Lee Arenberg - Pintel
Mackenzie Crook - Ragetti

“- Charley Brewster: You read way too much Twilight.
- Ed: That's fiction, okay. This is real. He's a real monster and he's not brooding, or lovesick, or noble. He's the fucking shark from Jaws. He kills, he feeds, and he doesn't stop until everybody around him is dead. And I seriously am so angry you think I read Twilight.”
Anton Yelchin - Charley Brewster
Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Ed

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things, that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- David: What were you doing in a library?
- Jennifer: I got lost.”
Tobey Maguire - David
Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer

“- Vice Principal Gene Wolters: I care about these kids just as much as you do. And if I'm forced to choose between Mozart and reading and writing and long division, I choose long division.
- Glenn Holland: Well, I guess you can cut the arts as much as you want, Gene. Sooner or later, these kids aren't going to have anything to read or write about.”
William H. Macy - Vice Principal Gene Wolters
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland