Prison quotes

“- David Walsh: Tell me the world is a fair place.
- Mr. Gartin: It's not, and try to remember that while your ass bleeds as you're being passed from nigger to wop in the showers at San Quinton.”

Matt Dillon - David Walsh
Peter Jason - Bill Gartin

“- Roman: You need to go to hell.
- Bryan: And you need to go back to Barstow!”
Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce
Paul William Walker IV - Brian O'Conner

“- Cop: I gotta make an arrest here. I had a complaint.
- Valo: Wait, I got this sports watch, you can have it, here.”
Tony Hawk - Cop
Bam Margera - Valo

“Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's gonna contain her?”

Ellen Page - Ariadne

“Got a couple of tips... help you guys stay out of jail. One: try your hardest to not be Black or Hispanic.”
Damon Wayans Jr. - Fosse

“- Sadusky: So, here is your options: Door number one: you go to prison for a very long time. Door number two: we're going to get back the Declaration of Independence; you help us find it, and... you still go to prison for a very long time. But you'll feel better inside.
- Benjamin Franklin Gates: Is there a door that doesn't lead to prison?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harvey Keitel - Sadusky
Nicolas Cage - Benjamin Franklin Gates

“- Bilkins:I thought you weren't supposed to go more than 100 yards away from your home.
- Roman:Why you think I'm parked so close to the derby?”
Thom Barry - Agent Bilkins
Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce

“- Lesra: This is some place.
- Rubin Carter: This is no place, not for a human being or anybody. Never get used to a place like this.”

Vicellous Shannon - Lesra
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“- Brenda: You'll be transferred to the other cellblock, at some point tomorrow.
- Selma: That's the cellblock where they hang people?
- Brenda: Yeah. That's were they spend the last day.
- Selma: And then they do the 107 steps - it's from that room to the gallows, isn't it?
- Brenda: That's what they say, Selma. But, look it, you're gonna get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Siobhan Fallon - Brenda
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“Great news: both my legs are broken so they can't take me right to jail.”
Jim Carrey - Fletcher Reede

“- Edgar Dante: Guess you'll just have to arrest me, officer.
- Lt. 'Hawk' Hawkins: I'm not going to arrest you, I'm going to kill you!”
Donald Richardson - Edgar Dante
Barbara Gehring - Lt. 'Hawk' Hawkins

“- Skip Donahue: I want a bigger cell! With better ventilation!
- Deputy Ward Wilson: Why? Grossberger's been fartin' on ya?”
Gene Wilder - Skip Donahue
Craig T. Nelson - Deputy Ward Wilson

“I'm tired of wishing things made sense. I'm tired of caring about some dead girl, and there's just gonna be another one after her. Sending killers to jail is just sending them where they've been heading all their dumb, pathetic lives. The dead are still dead.”

Kevin Bacon - Sean Devine

“- Lt. Shawn Fynn: I may have a job for you.
- Lt. Pieter Coetzee: Thanks, I went to prison once, I didn't like it.”
Sir Roger Moore - Lt. Shawn Fynn
Hardy Krüger - Lt. Pieter Coetzee

“Do you know that they do to soft, bald, overweight Republicans in prison, Ernest?”
Bruce Willis - Ernest Menville

Martha. My life is a never ending sewer of maggots like you. You're going to grow old and die in an ugly box with bars at one end and a shitter at the other. In a couple years I won't even remember your name. Just gonna be a case file stamped "closed".
John Travolta - Det. Elmer Robinson

“With all due respect, sir, I just spent 18 hours locked in a jail cell, on no formal charges, getting pulverized by drunken bigots!”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“- Camille: Are you going to jail?
- Tyler Gage: No, I'm not going to jail. But they will have to take me to jail if you don't start knocking. Get out of here.”
Alyson Stoner - Camille
Channing Tatum - Tyler Gage

“It's a good thing he never went to jail, Gopher, because if he came out, he'd have an asshole big enough to swallow a watermelon.”
Gregory Sierra - Barbosa

“Dad! Ted's in jail again! Come on!”
Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew

“So you're the new chicken licker.”

Robert Deacon - Prisoner

“- 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

“- Hodges: If this gets bad, it gets bad for both of us.
- Childers: Why, Hodge? Are you going to jail too?”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Samuel L. Jackson - Childers

“It must be nice in jail, with you there.”

Myrna Loy - Eleanor

“We produce books for the discriminating collector. The compulsive inmates set the type, the listless ones do the binding and prepare the ink.”
Sir Michael Caine - Royer-Collard