Prison quotes

“Juan Castillo... went to jail... for having sex with a goat. Ok? We lived on a farm! And I got lonely! We were just a couple of crazy kids!”
Steve Lemme - Juan

“- Kate: Where is everyone?
- Scott: You came early to detention?
- Kate: Oh. Well, I'd hate to miss a minute of being... detained.”
Brittany Snow - Kate
Penn Badgley - Scott

“- John Constantine: I'm a suicide, Angela. When I die, the rules say I've got just one place to go...
- Angela Dodson: You're trying to buy your way into heaven.
- John Constantine: What would you do if you were sentenced to a prison where half the inmates were put there by you?”

Keanu Reeves - John Constantine
Rachel Weisz - Angela Dodson

“Three years ago... a high school teacher got obsessed with a female student... he went psycho! He's been in a maximum security prision until three days ago.”
Shawn Driscoll - Officer Will

“- Lem: You should feel bad! Because of you, I had to spend weeks in jail.
- Teri: You should be thankful! Now, you can stay home and take care of your pregnant wife.
- Bird: You know what, Teri? You need to mind your own damn business, all right? Didn't nobody ask you for your help! You need to worry about your own husband and why he's sleeping...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mekhi Phifer - Lem
Vanessa Williams - Teri
Nia Long - Bird

I tattooed "survive" on my hand the night before I went away to prison. And I did. We do what we have to do to survive.
Levan Uchaneishvili - Uncle Nikolai

“- Ray Bledsoe: You're out of prison for one week and you come back to Brown's Hole. Get the hell out of here! Get a job or something. And stay out of trouble!
- Butch Cassidy: I don't want a job, Ray. That kind of life doesn't suit me.”
Jeff Corey - Ray Bledsoe
Tom Berenger - Butch Cassidy

“Civil rights, brotherly love, all that shit, that gets left at the front gate.”

F. Murray Abraham - Virgil Cane

“Sorry to interrupt you, Mister Mayor, but there's an old American saying: When there's blood on the streets, somebody's gotta go to jail.”
Denzel Washington - Detective Keith Frazier

“- Billali: The prisoners - are they to be turned back to the caves?
- She: No, kill them!”
Gustav von Seyffertitz - Billali
Helen Gahagan - She

“- Donald Rimgale: What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?
- Ronald Bartel: Burn it all.
[laughs]
- Donald Rimgale: See you next year, Ronald.”

Robert De Niro - Donald Rimgale
Donald Sutherland - Ronald Bartel

“- Skeeter Norris: Maybe we should just go tell the sheriff.
- Otis P. Hazelrigg: Are you crazy? You wanna spend the rest of your life in prison?
- Philby: Well, it's better than dyin'!”
Robert F. Lyons - Skeeter Norris
Charles Durning - Otis P. Hazelrigg
Claude Earl Jones - Philby

“Frankie, when you get to jail, you might want to talk to some of the brothers on your views of racial equality.”
Lenny Henry - Miles Pope

“- Jimmy Booth: The second way out, I need you guy's help, and that's under.
- Billy Hayes: You mean tunnel? Are you serious?
- Max: This is Shagmahr prison, not Stalag 17.
- Jimmy Booth: Well that's where you're wrong fuckface, because it's already built!”
Randy Quaid - Jimmy Booth
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes
Sir John Hurt - Max

“- Stanley Goodspeed: You enjoying this?
- John Patrick Mason: Well, it's certainly more enjoyable than my average day... reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washrooms... though, it's less of a problem these days. Maybe I'm losing my sex appeal.”

Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason

“Wouldn't it be funny if I went to Harvard, you went to Jail and we both ended up surrounded by crooks?”
Tom Cruise - Mitch McDeere

“- Lila Loomis: What about his victims? I have a petition here signed by 743 people against Norman Bates' release, including the relatives of the seven people he murdered.
- Judge: Madam, please sit down. This matter is being represented by the district attorney.”
Vera Miles - Lila Loomis
Ben Hartigan - Judge

“Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.”
Johnny Depp - George Jung

“It had not been edifying, indeed not, being in this hellhole and human zoo for two years now, being kicked and tolchocked by brutal warders, and meeting leering criminals and perverts, ready to dribble all over a luscious young malchick like your storyteller.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“- Melvin Purvis: Goodbye, Mr. Dillinger.
- John Dillinger: I'll see you down the road.
- Melvin Purvis: No, you will not. The only way that you will leave a jail cell is when we take you out to execute you.
- John Dillinger: Well, we'll see about that.”
Christian Bale - Melvin Purvis
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger

“Escaped French prisoners are all very well in their place, but their place is not my drawing-room.”
Miranda Richardson - Susan Gilchrist

“- Henry Brubaker: What are you in for?
- Abraham Cook: Manslaughter. Killed my baby brother with a rock.
- Henry Brubaker: How long were you sentenced?
- Abraham Cook: 35 years.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker
Richard Ward - Abraham Cook

“You are a convicted inmate on death row. What five albums would you pick?”
Ray Liotta - Ryan Weaver

“We win! Group hug in the shower tonight! Or not.”

Rob Schneider - Punky

“- King Neptune: You have confessed to the crime of touching the royal crown.
- Prisoner: B-but it's my job, your Highness. I'm the royal crown polisher!
- King Neptune: Well, I suppose I can't execute you. Twenty years in the dungeon it is!”
Jeffrey Tambor - King Neptune
Joshua Seth - Prisoner