“- Jimmy Booth: The second way out, I need you guy's help, and that's under.
- Billy Hayes: You mean tunnel? Are you serious?
- Max: This is Shagmahr prison, not Stalag 17.
- Jimmy Booth: Well that's where you're wrong fuckface, because it's already built!”
Randy Quaid - Jimmy Booth
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes
Sir John Hurt - Max

“- Kate: Planning a holiday? Or an escape?
- Jack Elgin: Who knows?”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“- Joe Moore: Anybody can get the goods. The hard part's getting away. You plan a good enough getaway, you could steal Ebbets Field.
- Mickey Bergman: Ebbets Field's gone.
- Joe Moore: What did I tell you?”
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Danny DeVito - Mickey Bergman

“Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“I think I have a plan. Why don't we throw a bomb the way we want to go and then when it goes off, we run like goddamn bastards!”
Finn Carter - Rhonda LeBeck