“Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
Prison quotes
460 prison quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“You squirrels better have some nuts in your mouth, or you're going downtown!”
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“- Sheriff: Harvey, who is that fella son of a bitch?
- Harvey Hall: How's that Sheriff? I mean, which son of a bitch?
- Sheriff: You know the one I mean. The one over there shaking hands with that nigger.
- Harvey Hall: That's Big Bill Shelly, notorious Bolshevik. We drug him in last evening.
- Sheriff: Well, I don't know about no Bolshevik, But...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Bruce Lee: You're the one with the big mouth, and I would really enjoy closing it, especially in front of all my friends. But my hands are registered as lethal weapons. That means, we get into a fight, I accidentally kill you? I go to jail.
- Cliff Booth: Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It's called manslaughter.”
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“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”
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“Time to empty our slop pails and run a little water over our faces, then back to our cells for the entire day. With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away...”
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“We're here to investigate a patient that killed three innocent teenagers on Halloween, 1978. He was shot by his own psychiatrist and taken into custody that night, and has spent the last forty years in captivity.”
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“From what you say, Oscar, it would seem that Reading Gaol is an enchanted castle. With the governor as its presiding elf.”
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“- Oscar Wilde: I met Christ in prison.
- Reggie Turner: And what was she in for?
- Oscar Wilde: Don't joke, Reggie. In the cell, there is only God and man.”
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“- Tommy DeVito: Hey Nicky! Remember when we couldn't get arrested?
- Bob Gaudio: When was that, Tommy? When you were three?”
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“- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: They're not the kinda guys who write letters. You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
- Elwood Blues: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of...” (continue) (continue reading) -
“- Carla: Are you crazy?
- Maddy Whittier: Wouldn't you be if you'd been inside for 18 years?”
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Most kids grow up with "don't fight me", "do your homework", "eat your dinner", "keep off the grass". Now for the first time this kid has found somebody who doesn't give a shit about the rules. A friend who probably listens to him, who scares him, he likes him, and who definitely never says, "what the hell do you know, you're just a kid". They... (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Detective Richie Roberts: I want to know everyone you've met for the last twenty years. Everyone you sold to. Every cop you ever paid off. Every one who ever stole from you. Every one you remember.
- Frank Lucas: Oh, I remember them all. That's not the problem.
- Detective Richie Roberts: What is?
- Frank Lucas: The jails aren't big enough.”
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“- Dr. Sanders: If the sheriff did his duty, you'd be locked up in a cell!
- Carol Nelson: If the state did its duty, you'd be locked up in a cell - a padded cell!”
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“- James King: My life is ruined, because after thirty days I'm going to prison!... It's not as bad as I've heard, is it?
- Darnell Lewis: Hell yeah, it's bad!
- James King: Teach me how to survive in prison, the way you did!
- Darnell Lewis: [amazed] Tell me how you know I went to prison?
- James King: Given your low economic status, your...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“When I said you saved my life I wasn't talking about the night I arrested you. I meant you saved my life because you hired me. Albeit for the wrong reasons.”
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