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

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“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.

“- 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

“Prisons are bulging with dummies who wonder how they got there.”
Alexander Scourby - Mike Lagana

“- Philip Lacasse: Have you ever listened to opera?
- Dell Scott: Yeah. Opera's really big in prison. You can hardly get a seat on opera night.”
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott

- Dell Scott: You see, my dad was a artist.
- Philip Lacasse: He was?
- Dell Scott: Con. Con artist. I ain't never see him, though. Unless you wanna count the time we spent together in lockup. We was in prison together. Sweet, right? You know what he said when he saw me, man? He said, "welcome home". Can you imagine saying some shit like that to... (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse

“I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.”

Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- 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.”
Mike Moh - Bruce Lee
Brad Pitt - Cliff Booth

“You're asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two fugitive apes? The answer is: a thousand times, yes.”
Ricardo Montalban - Armando

“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”
KiKi Layne - Tish Rivers

“The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.”
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“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...”

François Leterrier - Le lieutenant Fontaine