Prison quotes

“The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“Let me tell you where you assholes stand. First there's God, then the warden, then my guards, then the dogs out there in the kennel, and finally, you. Pieces of human waste. No good to yourselves or anybody else.”

John P. Ryan - Warden Ranken

“- Holly Golightly: I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.
- Paul Varjak: Sing Sing?
- Holly Golightly: I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. It sounds more like it should be an opera house or something.
Black, alligator. You know all the...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Peppard - Paul Varjak
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“- Ed Hocken: They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!
- Frank Drebin: I know, Ed. Life isn't always fair. Just think. The next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested.”
George Kennedy - Ed Hocken
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.”
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason

“- Jim Norman: Those punks said they transferred in from Milford. I checked, I can't find any Milford High.
- Old Officer Neil: That's because it isn't a school.”
Tim Matheson - Jim Norman
Duncan McLeod - Old Officer Neil

“I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly

“- Terry Carmichael: You know you're still under arrest, Captain.
- Riley Hale: Oh, yeah? I guess you better take me in.”
Samantha Mathis - Terry Carmichael
Christian Slater - Riley Hale

“- Johns: He just escaped from a maximum security prison.
- Fry: Should he just stay locked up forever?
- Johns: That would be my choice.”

Cole Hauser - William J. Johns
Radha Mitchell - Carolyn Fry

“Let's get something straight: I spent fourteen years in an eight by nine foot cell surrounded by people who were less than human, my mission in that time was to become more than human.”
Robert De Niro - Max Cady

“- Kai: I was afraid prison would make you soft.
- Han Sing: People don't get soft in prison.”
Russell Wong - Kai
Jet Li - Han Sing

“I have been in three different prisons. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.”
Levan Uchaneishvili - Uncle Nikolai

“- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: You look familiar. Have we met?
- Willy Gilligan: I don't think so. I've been away for a long time.
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: Where? Prison?
- Willy Gilligan: No, worse then that. A tropical island in the Pacific. There were chicks there, but you couldn't touch them. Wanna hear about it?
- Frankie, the Big Kahuna: No!”
Frankie Avalon - Frankie, the Big Kahuna
Bob Denver - Willy Gilligan

“I'm just a jailer. I run a 60 room hotel with bars on the windows.”
Chris Cooper - Sam

“A prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers.”
Amelia Warner - Simone

“- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: What the hell is this?
- Elwood Blues: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect city police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect police car. They were practically giving 'em away.
- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: Well thank you, pal. The day I get outta prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car!”
John Belushi - Joliet' Jake Blues
Dan Aykroyd - Elwood Blues

- George "Buck" Weaver: How do I look?
- Helen Weaver: You look just fine.
- George "Buck" Weaver: I look like a future jailbird.

John Cusack - George "Buck" Weaver
Barbara Garrick - Helen Weaver

“Fuckaire, the only thing I want to say is: you've kept me in a dungeon, and you've beaten me, and you've tortured me, and you even kissed me. And, I want these people to know that the only thing you've really done is make me really, really hungry.”
Cheech Marin - Louis Corsican

“- Esteban: Whatda fuck?
- Lt. Perez: You're under fuckin' arrest, that's whatda fuck.”

Giancarlo Esposito - Esteban
José Zúñiga - Lt. Perez

“- Professor Banks: I understand you are allowed one phone call from jail?
- Mark Watson: Yes.
- Professor Banks: Next time you get arrested, use it to call me. I'll bring you your books. You can study in jail.”
James Earl Jones - Professor Banks
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“- Danny Vinyard: I'm sorry, Derek. I'm sorry that happened to you.
- Derek Vinyard: I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Edward Furlong - Danny Vinyard
Edward Norton - Derek Vinyard

“- Abby Brewster: Just the thought of Jonathan frightens me. Do you remember how he used to cut worms in half with his teeth?
- Mortimer Brewster: He's probably in prison or hanged or something by now.”
Josephine Hull - Abby Brewster
Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“I've been in prison for three years. My dick gets hard if the wind blows.”
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

“I'll let fate decide what to do with you. If the police don't get you, the other Chinese families will. Do what you will father, but this time no one will go to prison for you.”

Jet Li - Han Sing

“I hope he likes spaghetti, they serve it four times a day in the Italian prisons!”
Noel Pierce Coward - Mr. Bridger