Reading quotes

“- Bastian: I know books, I have 186 of them at home.
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Ah, comic books.
- Bastian: No, I've read Treasure Island, The Last of the Mohicans, Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Rings, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tarzan.
- Carl Conrad Coreander: Whoa whoa whoa, who were you running from?
- Bastian: Just some kids from school.
- Carl...” (continue)(continue reading)
Barret Oliver - Bastian Balthazar Bux
Thomas Hill - Carl Conrad Coreander

“I remember what the wonderful Bobby De Niro said to me. Well, not to me, I read it in an article.”
Martin Hayter Short - Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates

“I read, I smoke, I admire.”
Elizabeth Banks - Laura Bush

“- Lily Yuriko Kawamura: Can you read that?
- Jack McGurn: Yeah. My Japanese is getting better every day.
- Lily Yuriko Kawamura: Actually, it's in Chinese. It might help you if you turn your menu up the other way.”
Tamlyn Tomita - Lily Yuriko Kawamura
Dennis Quaid - Jack McGurn

“I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.”
Clark Gable - Peter

“- Betty: When little Dan was two minutes old I tattooed it on his head.
- Yellowbeard: Does he know about this?
- Betty: Oh, no no no, that's why I kept him in the cupboard for three years. That may be why he's a bit odd with all these books, and reading, and stuff like that.”

Madeline Kahn - Betty
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard

“I can't finish the novel, I don't know whether he's good or bad.”

Sammi Cheng - Mary

“- Stan: I told you before I didn't want you to read this crap. I never saw such rotten crap in my life. Where do get this shit? Who sells it to ya? I'm talking to you, young man! You wanna answer me when I'm talking to ya. You remember who puts the friggin' bread on the table around here, don't you?
- Billy's Mother: Stan, don't be too hard on...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tom Atkins - Stan
Iva Jean Saraceni - Billy's Mother

“Read it for yourself, and not for some damn class.”

Ice Cube - Fudge

“Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.”
Anjelica Huston - Rodmilla

- Rocky Balboa: "There ain't no cover, Smokey,' said Brad Lincoln. 'We better head for the canyon".
- Adrian: You read nice.
- Rocky Balboa: Thank you. You lie nice!
- Adrian: Thank you.
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Talia Shire - Adrian

“- Julian 'Frankenstien' McGrath: Electricity! Constitution! Philadelphia!
- Delivery Guy: Fish! Pony! Hip, Hip Hop, Hip Hop anonymous? Damn you! You gave him the easy ones.”

Dylan Sprouse - Julian 'Frankenstien' McGrath
Rob Schneider - Delivery Guy

“- Mrs. Allyson: Slaughterhouse-Five, isn't that an awful name?
- Ren: Yeah it's a great book... Slaughterhouse-Five, it's a classic.
- Mr. Gurntz: Do you read much?
- Mrs. Allyson: Maybe in another town, it's a classic.
- Ren: In any town.
- Mr. Gurntz: Tom Sawyer is a classic!”
Mary Ethel Gregory - Mrs. Allyson
Kevin Bacon - Ren
Sam Dalton - Mr. Gurntz

“- Annie Knowby: The first passage will allow the demon to manifest itself in the flesh.
- Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams: Why the hell would we want to do that?”

Sarah Berry - Annie Knowby
Bruce Campbell - Ashley "Ash" J. Williams

“- May Welland: What are you reading?
- Newland Archer: Oh, it's a book about Japan.
- May Welland: Why?
- Newland Archer: I don't know. Because, it's a different country.
- May Welland: You used to read poetry. It was so nice when you read it to me.”
Winona Ryder - May Welland
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Rick O'Connell: The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?
- Evelyn Carnahan: It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book.”
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan

“- Hermione Granger: I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.
- Ron Weasley: This is light?”

Emma Watson - Hermione Granger
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“I'm the only normal one left around here. I'm a black Jew, I'm half drunk and I cant read.”
Jamie Foxx - Drew 'Bundini' Brown

“Find the thing that must be read, lest your heart be filled with dread.”
Jennifer Tilly - Madame Leota

“We have no secrets from our readers.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: "live people ignore the strange and unusual". I myself am strange and unusual.
Winona Ryder - Lydia

“- Pitt Mackeson: I wanna hear you read it.
- Jake: I don't think I'd care too.
- Pitt Mackeson: Oh, is that so? Well, I think that if you think a little bit more, Dutchie, you'll think you do wanna read it me. Right now, too.”

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Pitt Mackeson
Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“- Leopold the Tutor: I'm teaching him Latin, I'm teaching him biology, algebration, calculometry, physiconomy, and astrology.
- Mr. Spanish Ambassador: But he doesn't even know how to read!”
Ben Daniels - Leopold the Tutor
Arturo Venegas - Mr. Spanish Ambassador