Books quotes

“- Matilda: I have the adoption papers.
- Mrs. Wormwood: What? Where did you get those?
- Matilda: From a book in the library. I've had them since I was big enough to xerox.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“- Mera: What are we doing?
- Arthur: Hiding inside a whale, I got this from Pinocchio!
[later, Mera finds out who Pinocchio is]
- Mera: You based our escape strategy from a children's book?
- Arthur: I didn't read the book, I just saw the movie!”
Amber Heard - Mera
Jason Momoa - Arthur

“I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.”
Thomas Jane

- Mallory Grace: The book was in here with a big warning that said "Do not read", and you read it?
- Jared Grace: It's a book. I didn't think reading it would unleash goblin fury, okay?
Sarah Bolger - Mallory Grace
Freddie Highmore - Jared Grace

“- Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction?
- Miles: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction.
- Mike Erganian: Good I like non fiction. There is so much to know about this world. I think you read something somebody...” (continue)(continue reading)
Shaun Duke - Mike Erganian
Paul Giamatti - Miles

“Sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us.”
Liev Schreiber - Sam

“- Fantasy: What is this?
- Richard Tyler: It's a library card.
- Fantasy: I'm a book, honey, I can read.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Fantasy
Macaulay Culkin - Richard Tyler

“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You have something against books?
- Hannah Stubbs: I have nothing about books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
- Hannah Stubbs: Why do you need 25 copies of it?
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
Joan Cusack - Hannah Stubbs

“There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“Intuition can’t be found in books.

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Marielle Heller - Alma Wheatley

“People like me don’t write books, they’re written about.”
Ed Westwick - Chuck Bass

“The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.”
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“In my world, the books would be nothing but pictures.”
Kathryn Beaumont - Alice in Wondeland

“When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.”
Kathryn Beaumont - Alice in Wondeland

“- Phillip: Rupert only publishes books he likes... usually philosophy.
- Janet: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
- Brandon: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?”
Farley Granger - Phillip
Joan Chandler - Janet
John Dall - Brandon

“- Sherlock Holmes: When a man collects books on a subject, they're usually grouped together, but notice, your King James Bible, your Book of Mormon, and Koran are separate, across the room in fact, from your Hebrew Bible and Talmud, which sit on your desk. Now these books have a special importance for you not connected with a general study of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicol Williamson - Sherlock Holmes
Alan Arkin - Dr. Sigmund Freud

I don't know if you've read my book, "Advanced Sexual Positions: How to Achieve Them Without Laughing".
Woody Allen - Victor

“The public library is the last bastion of democracy that we have in this country!”
Jeffrey Wright - Anderson

“I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”
Jason Momoa

“- Customs Officer: How long do you plan to be here?
- Ray Cutler: Three days.
- Customs Officer: Honeymooners?
- Polly Cutler: That's right.
- Customs Officer: That isn't liquor you have in that case under your coat, is it?
- Ray Cutler: Uh, books. I'm going to catch up on my reading.
- Customs Officer: Reading!”
Neil Fitzgerald - Customs Officer
Max Showalter - Ray Cutler

“- Lucien Cordier: I can't read the aviator's book. It's too well-written.
- Anne: You like sounding illiterate? You're not. So why?
- Lucien Cordier: Habit. Grammar gets rusty like everything else if you don't use it. And in Africa the same goes for good and evil. What's good? What's evil? - Nobody knows. It's not much use here. So it gets rusty...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Irène Skobline - Anne - la nouvelle institutrice

“- Ben Wade: Have you ever read a book in your life, Byron, except the bible?
- Byron McElroy: No need.”
Russell Crowe - Ben Wade
Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy

- Cady Heron: And they have this book, this "Burn Book", where they write mean things about all the girls in our grade.
- Janis Ian: What does it say about me?
- Cady Heron: [lying, because the book describes Janis Ian as a dyke] You're not in it.
- Janis Ian: Those bitches!
Lindsay Lohan - Cady Heron
Lizzy Caplan - Janis Ian

“Movies are just a comforting fairy-tale compared to the real deal. Bram Stoker, he wrote a good yarn. But the events that he described back in 1897, God, that was just a tiny piece of the mosaic.”
Ryan Reynolds - Hannibal King

“You do know they're all bullshit, right? Maybe a quarter of it happened, and not like this. In the real world, people die, and no self-promoting asshole in a fucking leotard can stop this.”

Hugh Jackman - Logan