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'READING' in a movie sentence | examples for 'READING' from movies

[Scene: Monica, Chandler, and Phoebe's, Chandler is reading the newspaper as the phone rings. He let’s the machine answer it.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 22

Phoebe: (reading from the note) “Good-bye Phoebe and Ursula. I’ll miss you. P.S. Your Mom lives in Montauk.” You just wrote this!

"Friends", season 4, episode 1

Ross: Cool! Dad! My report cards! Hey, check this out dad, (reading his grades) Math, A. Science, A. History, A. Gym…(He puts it away and finds something else.) Oooh, my rock polisher!

"Friends", season 7, episode 13

[Scene: Joey's apartment. He walks in reading his mail, and plays back his messages on the answering machine]

"Friends", season 10, episode 15

RACHEL: Uhh, I mean this is like reading about my own life. I mean this book could have been called 'Be Your Own Windkeeper Rachel'.

"Friends", season 2, episode 19

Chandler: (reading) Knock-knock. Who's there? Ross Geller's lunch. Ross Geller's lunch, who? Ross Geller's lunch, please don't take me. Okay?

"Friends", season 5, episode 9

Phoebe: Oh my God! (Starts reading them.) Dizziness, nervousness, drowsiness, facial swelling, nausea, headache—Headache. Vomiting, stomach bleeding, liver damage! Now okay, I don’t recall any of this coming up when you gave me these little death capsules! Oh I’m sorry, extra strength death capsules!

"Friends", season 7, episode 16

[Scene: Ross and…Rachel’s…I guess I have to call it that now. Rachel is reading on the couch as Ross enters.]

"Friends", season 8, episode 15

RACH: All right, you know what, that's fine. If you guys want to be children about this, that's fine. I do not need to see it. [Rachel grabs the paper and runs across the room, reading it to herself.]

"Friends", season 2, episode 8

Ross: (returning from the phone.) So, I just picked up a message from Emily, she and Susan are going to a poetry reading together!

"Friends", season 4, episode 18

Ross: All right. (reading the label) ‘Candy and Cookie?’

"Friends", season 8, episode 15

Chandler (reading the newspaper): Suddenly I wish I was reading my own name.

"Friends", season 9, episode 14

[Scene: Monica and Chandler's. Chandler is sitting on the sofa, reading the newspaper.]

"Friends", season 9, episode 21

Monica: When you were reading the dirty magazines without taking off the plastic!

"Friends", season 9, episode 18

Chandler: Sorry, I just…can’t sleep. Ooh! (Turns on the light and Monica groans.) Where is that book that you are reading with the two women who were ice-skating and wearing, wearing those hats with the flowers on it? Because every time I look at that cover I’m like…(Fake snores.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 12

Ross: All right then. (Gets up, in an announcer’s voice) Rachel Green! Let’s play Bamboozled! (Reading from a note card.) How do you test the temperature of the baby’s bath water?

"Friends", season 8, episode 20

(Chandler hangs up and calls Monica who is reading a book on their sofa as the phone rings.)

"Friends", season 9, episode 9

Rachel: Ah! Well it was Joey reading Drake's lines in the dream...

"Friends", season 9, episode 19

Ross: (looks) Oh yeah! You're—hey, you're right! Here's an affordable place, (reading ad) two bedroom, close to work, ooh, it's available in five weeks!

"Friends", season 5, episode 7

Phoebe: (still reading the label) Oh my God! This is a six-hour pill! (Checks her watch) That’s it! I’m out of the woods! Ohh! What a relief!

"Friends", season 7, episode 16

Malcom: (reading) I met Phoebe today. She was really nice to me eventhough I'm such a loser. And, then when I was walking home I thought about her a lot, it was weird, but kinda cool.

"Friends", season 3, episode 3

Ross: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to increase security in the Paleontology section? See I-I wrote a book up there and instead of reading it people are-are-are well, rolling around in front of it.

"Friends", season 7, episode 7

[Scene: Ross and Carol's, Carol is working on something at the table and Ross is reading a newspaper on the couch.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 15

(Phoebe then gets possessed 'cause she starts speaking in tongues. She speaks Italian to Joey's grandmother. She is quickly exorcised and returns to speaking in English. Of course, too most people English is a strange language as well. But none of them are probably reading this and if they were they wouldn't understand it. So why am I talking about them? I have absolutely no clue. Moving on…)

"Friends", season 5, episode 19

[Scene: Monica’s apartment. Monica and Phoebe are reading magazines when the phone rings and Phoebe reaches to pick it up]

"Friends", season 10, episode 3

[Scene: Central Perk, Monica and Joey are there. Joey is reading a newspaper.]

"Friends", season 7, episode 11

Ross: (Reading the note) We know you're out there. (Rachel gasps)

"Friends", season 10, episode 8

Chandler: (reading) I don’t... uh... understand.

"Friends", season 10, episode 5

KEVIN: All right. It's no big deal. BILL: So, she has a boyfriend. What is your situation? RACHEL: Oh, well, it's complicated. I don't actually have a boyfriend.� But um. . . BILL: Then, can I have your number? RACHEL: (pause) I'm sorry, no. BILL: Okay. (They start to walk away.) RACHEL: Oh sure.� (She pulls a business card from her purse and writes on it.) PHOEBE: (Reading the card.) Oh my God, you're giving your real number. BILL: Okay, thanks. I'll give you a call later tonight. RACHEL: Great. BILL: Bye PHOEBE: Bye. (The guys leave.) Wow. So, that's great. You, Bill, Ross, and Emma are going to be so happy together. What were you thinking?

"Friends", season 9, episode 9

MONICA: It is nothing like the Hobbit. It's like reading about every relationship I've ever had, except for Richard.

"Friends", season 2, episode 19

Phoebe: No, ‘cause she didn’t tell me I was gonna die until the very end of the session, and I was not gonna waste a whole another hour there! I mean I’ve only got a week left, y’know? I’ve really gotta start living now! (So she picks up the latest copy of Car and Driver (a U.S. auto magazine), leans back, and starts reading.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

Monica: Oh thanks. (Reading the bill) Champagne, strawberries…Oh my God! I can’t believe Chandler ordered porn on our wedding night!

"Friends", season 8, episode 2

Rachel: (reading the program) Ooh! Look! Look! Look! Look, there's Joey's picture! This is so exciting!

"Friends", season 1, episode 6

Phoebe: Listen to this! My reading was wrong, I’m not going die!

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

[Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Ross is reading a letter that Chandler wrote.]

"Friends", season 3, episode 11

[Scene: Joey's apartment. Joey is reading a 'Busty Ladies' magazine when Chandler enters.]

"Friends", season 9, episode 6

CHANDLER: All right. (reading her answer) "My husband is sleeping with his secretary." She's married!

"Friends", season 2, episode 24

Phoebe: Quite an interesting turn of events, suddenly it’s my book to the rescue, huh? (Reading her book) Ooh, very interesting. Yeah, well this certainly clears things up.

"Friends", season 6, episode 21

[Scene: Central Perk, Joey is reading a paper as Phoebe enters.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 14

[Scene: Central Perk, Ross is reading some book and Gunther serves him a cup of coffee.]

"Friends", season 8, episode 7

Ross: Fine! Fine! But this break-up was not all my fault, and she, she says here, (reading from the letter) “If you accept full responsibility...” (to Chandler and Joey) Full responsibility! “...I can begin to trust you again. Does that seem like something you can do. (yells at Joey) Does it?!!”

"Friends", season 4, episode 1

Rachel: Oh, ah nothin’. I just felt like hangin’ out here and reading.

"Friends", season 3, episode 25

Rachel: Oh... Oh, I'm sorry! I'm not... I was just-I was just reading to Emma.

"Friends", season 9, episode 22

Rachel: Uh, thank you Phoebe. Umm, well, what struck me most when reading Jane Eyre was uh, how the book was so ahead of its time.

"Friends", season 5, episode 9

(With that we go into a little flashback about the guys’ memories of the duck. The first one is Joey playing with him in the bathtub and drying him off. Then it’s Chandler sitting on his couch after they moved into the girls apartment, and Chandler reading to him in bed, and him watching Baywatch when all they had was the canoe and the duck was in a bucket of water. Then we see Ross eating some cereal and the duck watching him. He takes a lamp and moves the duck off of the table. Then it’s Chandler shooing them out of the bathroom in the girls’ apartment, Joey revealing their disco cubby hole in the entertainment-center, then Chandler playing Hide-and-Go-Seek with them, and it’s concluded with various scenes with the duck flapping it’s wings. And the guys staring into the distance in remembrance of the duck.)

"Friends", season 4, episode 22

[Scene: Central Perk, Phoebe, Rachel, Chandler, and Monica are there. Rachel is reading everyone’s horoscope.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 21

Ross: Okay, come on! (blows on the dice) Daddy needs a new pair of electromagnetic microscopes for the Prehistoric Forensics Department! (They all look at him, and he shuts up and rolls the dice.) (he moves his piece) Okay. (reading a card) Take Pinky Tuscadero up to Inspiration Point, collect three cool points!! Yeah! Which gives me five, and let’s see who is gonna lose their clothes. Ummmm, I think I pick our strip poker sponsor Mr. Joey Tribianni.

"Friends", season 3, episode 25

JOEY: Here it is, here it is. [reading from newspaper] The only thing worse than the mindless, adolescent direction was Joseph Tribbiani's disturbingly unskilled portrayal of the king.

"Friends", season 2, episode 10

[Scene: Central Perk, everyone but Phoebe are there reading. Rachel is sitting on the couch flanked by Ross and Monica. She suddenly stops reading and starts blinking her left eye as if it's bothering her. The problem is that Joey is on her left and thinks she's winking at him and winks back. Ross is watching this and isn't quite sure of what to make of it.]

"Friends", season 5, episode 22

Chandler: Hey, you know what you can do? I remember reading about this director, I think it was Orson Wells, who at the beginning of the movie would hire somebody, just so he could fire them in front of everybody. Then they would all know, who’s boss.

"Friends", season 4, episode 10

Ross: What are you reading? The Kidnappers Guide to Manhattan Private Schools?

"Friends", season 8, episode 10

Monica: You don’t think that umm, (reading) "The chef’s Mahi Mahi was awful awful," is bad press?

"Friends", season 8, episode 21

[Scene: Chandler and Eddie's apartment. Joey stops by. Chandler is reading the paper and Eddie is fixing eggs.]

"Friends", season 2, episode 17

[Scene: Ross's hotel room. Ross and is reading his keynote speech to Charlie from his laptop]

"Friends", season 9, episode 23

Phoebe: What?! He was with her when he wrote this poem. Look, (reading) 'My vessel so empty with nothing inside. Now that I've touched you, you seem emptier still.' He thinks Monica is empty, she is the empty vase!

"Friends", season 3, episode 12

Rachel: I’m sorry, I was just reading the joke below it. Man, that one is funny. (Ross grabs the magazine away from her.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 12

Phoebe: (reading the nametag on the uniform) Hi, I'm Ben. I'm hospital worker Ben. It's Ben... to the rescue!

"Friends", season 1, episode 23

Joey: Oh no! No-no, keep reading! The good part's coming up. Keep going.

"Friends", season 5, episode 10

[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler and Joey are reading a magazine and Ross is chatting with Mona.]

"Friends", season 8, episode 8

[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler is on the couch reading as Ross enters carrying a garment bag.]

"Friends", season 7, episode 20

[Scene: Central Perk, Ross is reading a magazine, eating a cookie, and drinking some coffee as Phoebe enters.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 3

Chandler: Oh yeah? (He grabs the pad and starts reading it.) Joshua, give me a call sometime, guys like you (Pause) never go out of style—what did you throw away?

"Friends", season 4, episode 16

Monica: (Reading) 'A Woman Undone, by Rachel Karen Green'.

"Friends", season 1, episode 11

Girl: (Reading a book) Mommy, I can't find Waldo.

"Friends", season 9, episode 3

Phoebe: (on phone) Hi, this Phoebe from Empire Office Supplies, can I speak to your supply manager please? (Listens) Earl, thanks. (Listens) Hi Earl, this is Phoebe from Empire Office Supplies I’d like to talk to you about your toner needs. (She’s reading from the script.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 13

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Phoebe are cooking, Chandler is reading a magazine.]

"Friends", season 5, episode 4

Ross: (he starts reading directly from his cards word for word very quietly) "There are three primary theories concerning sediment flow rate. Each of these theories can be further subcategorized into two distinct…"

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

[Scene: Monica and Chandler's, Ross and Joey are reading Chandler’s new vows.]

"Friends", season 7, episode 21

[Scene: Joey and Rachel's, Rachel is getting ready for her date and Joey is reading a magazine.]

"Friends", season 8, episode 5

[Scene: Phoebe's grandmother's place. Phoebe's grandmother is sitting at the table, reading the obituaries, and crossing out names in the phonebook.]

"Friends", season 2, episode 9

[Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is sitting reading a book and hears the bed in Joey's room creaking, and does a 'Oh no, not again' look on his face.]

"Friends", season 3, episode 3

Rachel: Perfect. Fasten your seatbelts, it's peepee time. (She goes into Joey and Chandler's apartment, where Mr. Tribbiani is reading the paper) Hey, Mr. Trib.

"Friends", season 1, episode 13

[Scene: Richard’s Apartment, he’s smoking a cigar and reading a book as there is a knock on the door. He gets up and opens the door to reveal…]

"Friends", season 6, episode 24

The Director: (entering carrying a newspaper) Here we go people! (starts reading the review) Boxing Day! The Lucille Lortel Theatre, blah-la-la-la… Ah-ha! Joey Tribianni, gives an uneven performance, but Mr. Tribianni is not the worst thing in this production.

"Friends", season 3, episode 22

Chandler: (reading the check) Pete Becker. Pete… (quickly grabs a magazine and opens it up to show her a picture) (pointing to the picture) Is this him?

"Friends", season 3, episode 18

Ross: Ohh! Okay! Okay. (Resumes reading word for word from the card) "There are three (pauses and looks at Joey) primary theories concerning sediment flow rate. (Pauses and darts his eyes between Chandler and Rachel.) (Rachel starts laughing) Each of these theories (glances at Phoebe) can be further subcategorized (glances at Chandler) into…"

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

Chandler: (reading the list) Drop off my dry cleaning. Pick up my vitamins. Teach me how to spell vitamins. Wear in my new jeans.

"Friends", season 6, episode 15

[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler is reading on the couch while Joey, still suffering from his hernia, is returning with coffee for them both. After a series of grunts and groans he manages to painfully walk back from the counter, sit down, and slide Chandler his coffee.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 4

MONICA: [reading] 'Dear Dr. Remore, know that I love you and would do anything to have you.' Gosh. 'Your not-so-secretive admirer, Erica Ford.' Ooh wait, 'PS enclosed please find 14 of my eyelashes.'

"Friends", season 2, episode 12

BEST MAN: (standing up) Yo! Can I have your attention, please, Best Man, making a toast here. Thank you. (clears throat, and starts reading his toast) I remember when Barry got home from his first date with Rachel...

"Friends", season 2, episode 24

Monica: Ohh, of course we are! (They walk up to the elevators.) We left it up to fate. (Pushes the elevator button.) If we were supposed to get married there would be a clear-cut sign. (The elevator door opens to a priest reading from a bible with Chandler and Monica standing side-by-side holding each other’s hands.)

"Friends", season 6, episode 1

Joey: (reading) "When I think of the love that these two givers and receivers share, I can not help but envy the lifetime ahead of having and loving and giving and…" And then I can’t think of a good word for right here. (He points to the stop on the paper where he left off.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 16

Phoebe: (reading): Dear Ms. Green, thank you for your inquiry, however... oh... (crumples up letter)

"Friends", season 1, episode 18

Rachel: (reading) 'Gone for more jars. Back later. Monica Geller.'

"Friends", season 3, episode 3

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Rachel is reading The Shining, as Monica enters.]

"Friends", season 3, episode 13

Ross: (reading off his card) "A donation has been made in your name to the New York City Ballet." -- How did you know?

"Friends", season 9, episode 10

Monica: (also reading it) It doesn’t make any sense.

"Friends", season 10, episode 5

Joey: Hey little buddy, how are you feeling? (The duck does not get sick and Joey recoils in horror and heads for the couch.) What the hell is in that face cream? (He’s about to try out the couch but notices the bed in Rachel’s room. He walks into her room and feels the bed.) That’s so soft. (He pulls back the comforter.) Pillowcases! (He climbs in and groans in delight. Suddenly, he feels something under him and pulls out a little beat up paperback book. He opens it and starts to read from it.) (In his head.) Zelda looked at the chimney sweep. Her father, the vicar…(Stops reading and thinks.) The vicar? (Continues reading) …wouldn’t be home for hours. Her loins were burning. She threw caution to the wind and reached out and grabbed his…(Out loud.) Whoa! (Reads on in silence.) Whoa-ho-ho-ho! This is a dirty book! (Continues to read.)

"Friends", season 7, episode 2

Chandler: (reading the comics) Eh..., I don’t, I don’t know.

"Friends", season 3, episode 10

[Scene: Monica and Chandler's, (although its really just Monica’s now with Matthew Perry in rehab) Monica is folding her laundry with Ross reading the paper and Phoebe standing in the kitchen.]

"Friends", season 7, episode 19

Rachel: (angrily) GIVE ME THE BOOK! (she takes it and start reading) Pablo Diaz, Brady Smith, huh, "Guy-in-van"?

"Friends", season 10, episode 6

[Scene: The porch, Bonnie is coming back from swimming, Rachel is reading.]

"Friends", season 3, episode 25

Rachel: Oh, wow thanks! (Reading the card) Oh you’re in real estate!

"Friends", season 7, episode 20

[Scene: Chandler, Joey, and Ross's, Chandler is reading a magazine as Ross hands him a beer.]

"Friends", season 5, episode 12

Joey: Thanks. (The grip walks away.) (Reading the card.) Congratulations on your big break.

"Friends", season 5, episode 22

[Scene: Monica and Chandler's, Chandler is reading Chicken Soup for the Soul as Monica enters.]

"Friends", season 6, episode 14

Rachel: (reading) Joey! (Pause) We should just switch.

"Friends", season 6, episode 24

Ross: Rach, I think you’re reading a little too much into it.

"Friends", season 8, episode 9

Joey: Thanks! Okay-okay check it out! (Reading from the script) Picture? What picture? (He pauses then spits) Eh?

"Friends", season 7, episode 23

[Scene: Joey and Rachel's, Rachel is reading and there is knock on the door which she answers.]

"Friends", season 7, episode 16

Ross: (reading from a notepad) I mean, we've been accepting Leakey's dates as a given, but if they're off by even a hundred thousand years or so then you can - you can just throw most of our assumptions, you know, right in the trash. (he throws the notepad in the waste bin) So-so what I am saying is - is is that (he picks the notepad back from the waste bin) is that the repercussions could be huge! I mean, not just in palaeontology, but if-if you think about it, in evolutionary biology, uh, genetics, geology, uh, I mean, truly the mind boggles!

"Friends", season 9, episode 22