Prison quotes

“Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
John Hardwick

“You squirrels better have some nuts in your mouth, or you're going downtown!”
Gailard Sartain - Bimbeau

“- 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)
Jerry Cortez - Sheriff
Harry Northup - Harvey Hall

“- Hades: Brothers! Titans! Look at you in your squalid prison! Who put you down there?
- Titans: Zeus!
- Hades: And now that I set you free, what is the first thing you are going to do?
- Titans: Destroy him!”
James Woods - Hades
Corey Burton - Titans

“I had enough bad luck to keep me laughin' the rest of my life. Sat in that jail. I sat in that jail til I nearby done rot to death. I know what it like, Ms. Celie, to wanna go somewhere and cain't.”
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia

“- Warden: Been playing this thing long?
- Frank Morris: Couple of months.
- Warden: You any good?
- Frank Morris: Terrible.
- Warden: You'll get better. That's one of the benefits of Alcatraz - lots of time to practice.”

Patrick McGoohan - Warden
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“We are the last living survivors from our prison block. Besides me, you are the only person who could still recognize the man who killed our families.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum

“Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime.”
Mario - Andre Bryant

“- Record Company Executive: Your fans are church folk, Johnny. Christians. They don't wanna hear you singing to a bunch of murderers and rapists, tryin' to cheer 'em up.
- John R. Cash: Well, they're not Christians, then.”

David Caffey - Record Company Executive
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash

“You know you done fucked up, don't you? You know it, don't you? You know you done fucked up.”
Bill Duke - Detective

“- Damon: Ya know maybe we can get to know each other..
- Money Mike: Shut up! The hell you talkin bout! I am a boy! You are not in prison anymore Damon! Thats not how we do it!”

Terry Crews - Damon
Katt Williams - Money Mike

“- Bert: Let's sit down. You know, begging your pardon, but the one my heart goes out to is your father. There he is, in that cold heartless bank day after day, hammed in by mounds of cold heartless money. I don't like to see any living thing caged up.
- Jane: Father in a cage?
- Bert: They makes cages of all sizes and shapes, you know....” (continue)(continue reading)
Dick Van Dyke - Bert
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks

“- Parole Board Chairman: Mr. Blake, what will you do if you get out of prison?
- Earl Talbot Blake: I guess, Mr. Chairman, that first I'll pay a visit to your house.
- Parole Board Chairman: To thank me, I suppose?
- Earl Talbot Blake: No... to fuck your wife. And your daughter. Hell, maybe even your dog.”
Frank Miller - Parole Board Chairman
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake

“- Jessie: You sell little fucking cars, that's what you do.
- Frank: I wear $150 slacks, I wear silk shirts, I wear $800 suits, I wear a gold watch, I wear a perfect, D-flawless three carat ring. I change cars like other guys change their fucking shoes. I'm a thief. I've been in prison, all right?”
Tuesday Weld - Jessie
James Caan - Frank

“- Benvolio: Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
- Romeo: Not mad, but bound more than a mad man is. Shut up in prison, kept without my food, whipped and tormented.”
Dash Mihok - Benvolio
Leonardo DiCaprio - Romeo

“Johnson, Rhodes: You're in a shit-pile of trouble. We're confiscating your weapons. My orders are to put you in jail - a Bangkok jail. Colonel, I don't want to put an old soldier like you in jail, but damn it, this scheme of yours is crazy! Shit! You best be on the next plane to the States. And don't go back to the hotel. They're waiting for...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Edgcomb - CIA Agent

“Your friend, Sailor, blowtorched a local kingpin biker. We're holding him on our Witness Protection Program. Silly sonofabitch come in here with a grenade hung around his neck. If you ask me, I don't think his bread's quite done.”

Ken Farmer - Jail Guard

“- Hoppie Gruenewald: Where did you learn to box like that?
- P.K.: Prison, sir.”
Ian Roberts - Hoppie Gruenewald
Stephen Dorff - P.K.

“I’m not the same fool you sent off to prison 18 years ago.”
Manolo Cardona - Alex

“I have been here for less than two weeks. I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift.”
Taylor Schilling - Piper Chapman

“The jails are full with innocent people because they told the truth.”
Lou Jacobi - Moustache

“- Ricky Knight: I'd just got out of prison.
- Hugh: Prison? What was that for?
- Ricky Knight: Mainly violence.”
Nick Frost - Ricky Knight
Stephen Merchant - Hugh

“- Pete Menzies: Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: Nobody.
- Pete Menzies: Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.”
Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan

“- Leonard Vole: But this is England, where I thought you never arrest, let alone convict, people for crimes they have not committed.
- Sir Wilfrid: We try not to make a habit of it.”
Tyrone Power - Leonard Vole
Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Roberts

“- Helen Parr: Who did I put in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Pizza delivery guy. Seemed the right height, build. He gave you a pretty good fight. I should say I gave you a pretty good fight through him.
- Helen Parr: But it doesn't bother you that an innocent man is in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Eh, he was surly. And the pizza was cold.”
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr
Catherine Keener - Evelyn Deavor