“- Daniel Kintner: The only reason we are out here in the first place is because of your fucking job!
- Susan Watkins: What?
- Daniel Kintner: If it were not for your job, we would not have thrown our plans out the window, rushed around at the last minute and settled on this fucking trip!”
Daniel Travis - Daniel Kintner
Blanchard Ryan - Susan Watkins

“- Chon Wang: I got an idea: why don't I pretend I'm sick, and then you can attack the guard when they come in?
- Roy O'Bannon: Oh, you mean the sick prisoner routine? Does that still work in China? 'Cause here it's sorta been done to death.”
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“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

“- 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