- Heywood: The Count of Monte Crisco...
- Floyd: That's "Cristo" you dumb shit.
- Heywood: ...by Alexandree Dumb-ass. Dumb-ass.
- Andy Dufresne: Dumb-ass? "Dumas". You know what it's about? You'll like it, it's about a prisonbreak.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: We oughta file that under "Educational" too, oughten we?

William Sadler - Heywood
Brian Libby - Floyd
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Yellowbeard: Dan, if you're my son, prove it. Kill this stupid old bugger!
- Lord Lambourn: Hold your horses...
- Dan: I can't kill him! He brought me up! Just like a father.
- Yellowbeard: Oh, you mean he's beat ya and kicked ya and smashed ya in the teeth?”
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard
Peter Cook - Lord Lambourn
Martin Hewitt - Dan

“- David Jacobs: My father taught us not to lie.
- Jack Kelly: Well, mine told me not to starve; so we both have an education.”
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“I'd like a chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life.”
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“- Sincere: Yo, when's the last time you read anything, man?
- Tommy 'Buns' Bundy: Never, motherfucker.”
Nas - Sincere
DMX - Tommy 'Buns' Bundy