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

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

“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,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jerry Cortez - Sheriff
Harry Northup - Harvey Hall

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

“- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: They're not the kinda guys who write letters. You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
- Elwood Blues: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Belushi - Joliet' Jake Blues
Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

“Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.”
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“- 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

“- 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

“I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”
Marshall R. Teague - Jimmy

“You ever watch lions at the zoo? You can always tell which ones were captured in the wild by the look in their eyes. The wild cat. She remembers running across the plain, the thrill of the hunt. Four hundred pounds of killing fury, locked in a box. But after a while, their eyes start to glaze over, and you can tell their soul has died.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Agent Augustus Gibbons

“You can run me, you can starve me and you can beat me and you can kill me. Just don't bore me.”

Clint Eastwood - Highway

“You do that to Apollo Creed, they'll put us in jail for murder.”

Burt Young - Paulie

“- 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

“- English: Ten years ago, I was in this bar in Alabama when two dudes started hassling me. That was their first mistake. They pulled knives. That was their second mistake. They didn't know how to use them. That was the last mistake they ever made. I got two 99-year sentences, back to back.
- Frank Morris: Seems like you could've pleaded...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Benjamin - English
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“- 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