“- Dr. Niles: He had the right qualifications.
- Pete Blanchard: Such as?
- Dr. Niles: He was the only one crazy enough to do it.
- Pete Blanchard: Let me tell you about Pendleton: he could have been one of the best, but he hates authority, can't take orders, and likes to make up his own rules.”

Mark L. Taylor - Dr. Niles
Harold Sylvester - Pete Blanchard

“- Lt. Coffey: Let's get something straight. You people are under my authority.
- Catfish De Vries: Look, partner, we don't work for you. We don't take orders from you. And we don't much like you.”
Michael Biehn - Lt. Coffey
Leo Burmester - Catfish De Vries

“- Male Heavenly Voice: Those are the rules and that's all there is to it.
- Female Heavenly Voice: On the other hand, dear, rules were made to be broken.
- Male Heavenly Voice: We'll talk about that later.
- Female Heavenly Voice: Which is later?”
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Heavenly Voice - Male
Coral Browne - Heavenly Voice - Female

“- Scary Spice: I'll move that fairground horse to there. Sort that out!
- Ginger Spice: You can't do that!
- Scary Spice: Says who?
- Ginger Spice: Says Mr. Chess! It's been in the rules for thousands of years!
- Scary Spice: Well I'm gonna break the rules and set this little fairground horse free amonst all these little square fields, like that.”

Melanie Brown - Scary Spice
Geri Horner - Ginger Spice

“If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to US. Alcatraz is not like any other prison in the United States. Here, every inmate is confined alone... to an individual cell.”
Patrick McGoohan - Warden