“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

“- Warden Norton: [to new inmates, after explaining the prison routine] Any questions?
- Prisoner: When do we eat?
- Captain Hadley: You eat when we say you eat. You piss when we say you piss, and you shit when we say you shit. You got that, you maggot dick motherfucker?”
Bob Gunton - Warden Norton
Clancy Brown - Captain Hadley

“It's simple in here. An insane place with insane rules. It all ends up being logical. If you're white, you hang white. Otherwise, the niggers are gonna eat you alive.”

F. Murray Abraham - Virgil Cane

“The first rule about friends is they have to trust each other.”

Dana Delany - Susan Barnes

“- Boss Spearman: I believe you have a friend of ours in your jail. His name's Mose Harrison.
- Sheriff Poole: I got him here. He started a fight in the general store.
- Boss Spearman: Mose don't start fights. He just finishes them.”
Robert Duvall - Boss Spearman
James Russo - Sheriff Poole