Reading quotes

“Pete, it's good to see you, buddy. I'm dying to read your book, man. When's it coming out on tape?”
Julia Roberts - Sabrina Peterson

“Where I come from, it don't pay to read and speak white!”
Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy

“I taught some of the stupidest children god ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.”
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan

“I like to read... you're probably not to interested in the subject. You probably hate books!”
Jonathan Brandis - Bastian Balthazar Bux

“Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon - that's hard.”
James Doohan - Scotty

“- Michael: I'm getting tired of everything I write being read in the can.
- Harold: You can read Dostoyevsky in the can.
- Michael: Yes, but they can't finish it.”
Jeff Goldblum - Michael
Kevin Kline - Harold

“People take their carriers for granted, trust them not to read the sealed envelopes or postcards even. They stick on their stamps and have faith. I deliver the mail but never get any. But still, it's the best job I've ever had. I could do it forever.”

Owen Wilson - Vann

- Grace Winslow: You don't behave as if you are in love.
- Catherine Winslow: How does one behave as if one is in love?
- Arthur Winslow: One doesn't read "The Social Evil and The Social Good". One reads Lord Byron.
Gemma Jones - Grace Winslow
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow
Nigel Hawthorne - Arthur Winslow

“They can't imprison your mind. And that's why I want you to learn to read. I want you to have your own life!”

Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“- Addley: It's a beautiful day, you see? You see? You're all alone in the park, sittin' on a park bench, and you're readin' somethin' real good.
- Ike: Yeah, like a muscle magazine.”
Michael McCleery - Addley
Frederick Coffin - Ike

“All I've been doing is reading this diary wondering how the hell I'm still alive?”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll

“Hand me my purse, will you, darling? A girl can't read that sort of thing without her lipstick.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“- Annie: What's going on here?
- Greg Proffitt: He's upset because he can't read.
- Annie: Well he's a small child.
- Greg Proffitt: He can't read for a small child either.
- Charlie Proffitt: The teacher makes fun of him.”

Goldie Hawn - Annie
Jamie Wild - Greg

“- Nelson Fox: Perfect. Keep those West-Side liberal nuts, psudo-intellectuals...
- Joe Fox: Readers, Dad. They're called readers.
- Nelson Fox: Don't do that, son. Don't romanticize them.”
Dabney Coleman - Nelson Fox
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“There are no trashy writers, only trashy readers.”
Tom Conti - Gowan McGland

“Books change each time you read them.”
Thomas Hill - Koreander

“Books are like eggs. You got to crack 'em open to get anything out of them.”
Polly Bergen - Miss Maybry

- Elaine Dickinson: Would you like something to read?
- Hanging Lady: Do you have anything light?
- Elaine Dickinson: How about this leaflet, "Famous Jewish Sports Legends"?
Julie Hagerty - Elaine Dickinson
Ann Nelson - Hanging Lady

“- Griffen Grayson: Have you ever read any Judy Blume books? … Have you ever read any books?
- Scott: Does 'Sports Illustrated' count?”
Austin Nichols - Griffen Grayson
Billy Aaron Brown - Scott

“- 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

“- Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
- Scripps: No.
- Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.”
Dominic Cooper - Dankin
Jamie Parker - Scripps

“- Betty: I know about this house - it's haunted. I read about it in the Sunday Magazine section.
- Jerry: You did what?
- Betty: Well, somebody read it to me... but I know it's haunted.”
Betty Kean - Betty
June Preisser - Jerry

“- Chris Lowe: Where are you from?
- Neil Tennant: Yes where are you from?
- Priest: I'm glad you asked me twice. You see I'm a bilingual. A bilingual illiterate - I can't read in two languages.”
Chris Lowe - Himself
Neil Tennant - Himself
Joss Ackland - Priest

“How can he say that Pure Categories have no objective meaning in Transcendental Logic? What about Synthetic Unity?”

Pamela Stephenson - Lorelei

“- Mame Dennis: Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don't understand.
- Patrick Dennis: Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers?”
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis