Prison quotes

“Love. Where does it come from? Who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it. I was a prisoner. You set me free.”
Ben Chaplin - Pvt. Bell

“- Jack Kelson: I gotta turn this around. Get some money quick.
- Charlotte: How are ya going to do that?
- Jack Kelson: Oh I got my ways.
- Charlotte: Are we going back to jailhouse correspondence?”
Jeff Bridges - Jack Kelson
Lucinda Jenney - Charlotte

“We want to make the prisons an asset, not a liability. It is in the prisons that we will break the backs of the IRA.”
Tom Hollander - Farnsworth

“We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal pound me in the ass prison.”
David Herman - Michael Bolton

“I know you don't want to go to jail in Mexico because nobody wants to go to jail in Mexico. They put all kinds of burritos in your ass.”

Martin Lawrence - Miles Logan

“- Andy Dufresne: I have no enemies here.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Yeah? Wait a while. Word gets around. The Sisters have taken quite a likin' to you. Especially Boggs.
- Andy Dufresne: I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“I thought all the really good dungeons were in Europe.”
Kenn Scott - Raphael

“- Ed: You mean you busted out of jail.
- Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
- Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.”
Holly Hunter - Ed
William Forsythe - Evelle
John Goodman - Gale

“- Ella Tate: I've been to jail, like I said.
- Weston Tate: On visit?
- Ella Tate: Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.
- Weston Tate: What?
- Ella Tate: Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
James Woods - Weston Tate

“- Charlie Croker: This car belongs to the Pakistani ambassador!
- Lorna: It does?
- Charlie Croker: Typical, isn't it? I've been out of jail five minutes, and already I'm in a hot car.
- Lorna: Charlie, I just wanted you to come out in style, baby.”

Sir Michael Caine - Charlie Croker
Margaret Blye - Lorna

“- Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
- David Huxley: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.”

Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.”
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“- Natalie: Go pick on someone as dumb as you!
- Rory Buck: As dumb as me?
- Natalie: I hope you know that school bullies make up 75% of our prison population.”
Mika Boorem - Natalie
Taylor Handley - Rory Buck

“You cannot know what it is like to sit in prison for six years and think of nothing else in the world but your son.”

Ashley Judd - Libby

- Danskin: I hate jailbird chess. I hate the style. Like a goddamn little tweety bird. "Ooh, here's a move!" It's fucking degrading.
- Smitty: Plenty of guys belt you when they lose. Fucking Danskin, he wins and he hits you!
Richard Masur - Danskin
Ray Sharkey - Smitty

“- Marcel Chevasson: Where do you think they are now?
- Lucien Cordier: In jail?
- Marcel Chevasson: Someday you'll learn a coffin costs the state less than a man in a cell, old chum.”

Guy Marchand - Marcel Chavasson
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Can't keep me here, chief.
- Chief Jerry Karlin: Maybe I'm not going to keep you in here. Maybe I'm going to blow your brains out.
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Well, now, I'm no lawyer, but I do believe that's a violation of my rights.”

Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Joe Don Baker - Chief Jerry Karlin

“- Des: They're puttin' me in a foster home.
- Cory: No way. We'll just take off.
- Des: Where?
- Cory: Who cares? Vince and my Mom got me grounded so bad it's like jail. Been locked up for three weeks and I'm sick of it. I took off school at lunch today and I ain't goin' back. I want out.”
Brendan Fletcher - Des
Myles Ferguson - Cory

Where you will be going, they have the oddest notions of hospitality. First, they shave your head. Then, they delouse you, feed you with something a ravenous crocodile would pass up, then, lock you up for the night with unfriendly lesbian companions - and you have your own "private" little chamber pot under the bed. Oh, it is very unpleasant, I... (continue)(continue reading)

David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

“I'd like to know just how strong we are. Or how weak. But I guess the only way we're gonna find that out is just by going through this.”
Jessica Lange - Leigh Bowden

“- Meeker: National guard will take him to a maximum security facility where he'll stay till the day he dies.
- Jamie: He'll never die.”

Beau Starr - Sheriff Ben Meeker
Danielle Harris - Jamie

“Stephen, I'm afraid. You're hypnotized by this place. All of you! You don't see that it's not a sanctuary, it's a prison! Let's just take what we need and get out of here!”
Gaylen Ross - Francine

“- Frank White: I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn't deserve it.
- Roy Bishop: Who made you judge and jury?
- Frank White: Well, it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.”
Christopher Walken - Frank White
Victor Argo - Roy Bishop

“There must be a con like me in every prison in America. I'm the guy who can get if for you; cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- C.W. Moss: I spent a year in reformatory!
- Bonnie Parker: Oh! A man with a record!”
Michael J. Pollard - C.W. Moss
Faye Dunaway - Bonnie Parker