Prison quotes

“Cooperate and you're a free man, Lassiter. Cross me and you'll do twenty hard years.”
Bob Hoskins - Inspector John Becker

“- Joseph Turner White: I may have to go to jail.
- Ann: I'll knit you a sweater.
- Joseph Turner White: I'm gonna be in there a long time.
- Ann: I'll knit you a jumpsuit.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Joseph Turner White
Rebecca Pidgeon - Ann

“It's been a long time since someone wrote a really good book in jail.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“I won't lay a finger on you. But you'll go to prison. And when those nonces and those perverts get hold of a clever boy like you - and I'll make sure they do - they'll be queueing up round the block. You're going to end up with an arsehole like a clown's pocket.”

Stephen Dillane - Inspector Burton

“- Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Forget?
- Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: What're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Wolf: When I get out, you're dead!
- Prison Guard: You might be dead before you get out.”
Bruce M. Fischer - Wolf

“I don't want him understood. I want him out here and arrested.”

Ted Levine - Lemke

“Alvin, you're an ex-convit, man. You just got out the penitentiary. You got 26 dollars in your pocket, 25 of it is mine!”
Mike Epps - Stevie Sanders

“- Sweet Sue: Didn't you girls say you went to a conservatory?
- Daphne: Yes. For a whole year.
- Sweet Sue: I thought you said three years.
- Josephine: We got time off, for good behavior.”
Joan Shawlee - Sweet Sue
Jack Lemmon - Daphne
Tony Curtis - Josephine

“We all come from a factory and, sometimes, the factory makes bad machines. They don't work. So, they put them here. The bad machines don't know that they're bad machines. But, the people at the factory know. They know that you are one of the machines that doesn't work.”
Peter Jeffrey - Ahmet

“- Mateo: All right, I'm your goddamn prisoner!
- Timi: I don't want you... you're a shitty prisoner.”
Erick Bowen - Mateo
Treasure Tshabalala - Timi

“I had better sex in prison.”
Ben Affleck - Rudy Duncan

“- Col. Winter: Tell me, Mr. Yates, how does a man like you get into West Point?
- Yates: My father was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, sir.
- Col. Winter: Oh, right. Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.”
James Gandolfini - Col. Winter
Mark Ruffalo - Yates

“- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
- Heywood: Shit. I could never get like that.
- Ernie: Oh yeah? Say that when you been here as long as Brooks has.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Goddamn right. They send you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
William Sadler - Heywood
Joseph Ragno - Ernie

“- Mona Lisa Vito: What the fuck is going on here, Vinny? You fucking up this case or what?
- Vinny Gambini: I explained it to you already, didn't I? It's a procedure. I'm learning all this as I go along. I'm bound to fuck up a little.
- Mona Lisa Vito: A little? You've been thrown in jail twice!”
Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“- Sheriff Hunt: I was for you then. Believed in you. You made a fool of me. Look, what you did to yourself. Why, Norman, why? Good God son. You'll never get out again. We're gonna have you locked up forever.
- Norman Bates: But I'll be free. I'll finally be free.”

Hugh Gillin - Sheriff John Hunt
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Prison Guard: They lie, you know?
- Steve Everett: Who's that?
- Prison Guard: Prisoners. That's what they do. Every word they say is a lie.
- Steve Everett: Well, everyone lies, pal. I'm just here to write it down.”
Clint Eastwood - Steve Everett

“- Lloyd: I'm done being your hostage.
- Billie Jean: Fine, I'll see you in jail!”
Keith Gordon - Lloyd
Helen Slater - Billie Jean

“This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison, to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.”
William Morgan Sheppard - Klingon Commander

“- Billy Hayes: What's Jimmy's story? Why is he in here? Hash?
- Erich: No. He was caught stealing from a mosque. That is also a heavy crime here in Turkey.
- Billy Hayes: What did he steal?
- Erich: Two candle sticks.”
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes
Norbert Weisser - Erich

“Well, don't worry about it. I mean, what could happen? Of course, my design could have a few flaws. And after a few weeks, Will and I discover we hate each other. Abigail proves to be the flake of the century; she can't raise a dime. A giant sandstorm comes along, knocks this place over, we go broke, the IRS throws us in jail. The State...” (continue)(continue reading)

Stellan Skarsgård - Joe Heiser

“Johnny, you don't know what a few months in jail can do to you, man. You get mean in jail, I just don't wanna see that happen to you like it happened to me, man.”
Matt Dillon - Dallas Winston

“As a girl you see the world as a giant candy store filled with sweet candy and such. But one day you look around and you see a prison and you're on death row. You wanna run or scream or cry but something's locking you up.”
Jennifer Aniston - Justine Last

“- Michael: I'd only been in jail 13 hours, I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse.
- Jacob: Shows how little you knew.
- Michael: Yeah, really.”
Matt Craven - Michael
Tim Robbins - Jacob

“- Sully: A condemned man has a right to a last request doesn't he? I got my truck out back whaddya say we get in the back get naked and see where it goes from there?
- Birdy: Ok.
- Sully: Haven't you got any pride?
- Birdy: Go to jail, Sully, it's where you belong.”
Paul Newman - Sully
Margo Martindale - Birdy