Prison quotes

“One of you's gonna get married and the other one's going to jail, so you really got a lot in common.”
William Frawley - Sheriff McGee

“You're all I thought about for six months! They threw me in a jail filled with rejects from the communicable disease ward. Every wacko, drippy, open-sored low-life was in that joint... all of them wanting to hire on as my proctologist!”

Michael Douglas - Jack

“- Colonel George Walker: When he gets back here, sergeant, I'm throwing his ass in the stockade!
- Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh: We don't have a stockade, sir!
- Colonel George Walker: I'll build one!”

Jerry Reed - Colonel George Walker
Clayton Rohner - Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh

“For me it's simple. A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.”
Pierre Fresnay - Le captaine de Boeldieu

“You and I are riding in the back seat from now on. Because what that missile twister can teach you, you don't need to learn 'til you're in prison.”

Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley

“- Stanley Gusciora: Your Honor, I can't do no 20 years.
- Judge: Well do as much as you can, son.”
Kevin O'Connor - Stanley Gusciora

“- Mr. Hayes: Billy, why did you do it?
- Billy Hayes: Money.
- Mr. Hayes: Look, I know you kids smoke that stuff and we drink booze; but, taking it across the border, that's - that's stupid, Billy. That's stupid!
- Billy Hayes: I know. Dad - get me out of here.”

Mike Kellin - Mr. Hayes
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“- Junior: Hey, Martin! Let's go see the bearded lady.
- Martin Beck: No, I've seen too many of them in prison.”
Michael Oliver - Junior
Michael Richards - Martin Beck

“The jail you planned for me is the one you're gonna rot in.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson

“I've spent 3 1/2 years of my life in your prison, and I think I've paid for my error, and if it's your decision today to sentence me to more years, then I...”

Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“- Steve Dodds: Ro-ads. Ro-ods.
- Mike Donnelly: Quiet back there! I've taken enough guff from you for one day!
[turns to state trooper]
- Mike Donnelly: Raving psycho! Butchered 400 chickens and screwed a beagle. I'm taking him back to Nevada where he's wanted for banging horses!”

David Spade - Steve Dodds
Chris Farley - Mike Donnelly

“- Violet Newstead: I'm a murderess. I'm gonna go to the pen. My poor kids. I'm gonna lose my job.
- Judy Bernly: Violet, stop this.
- Violet Newstead: I'm no fool. I've killed the boss, you think they're not gonna fire me for a thing like that?”
Lily Tomlin - Violet Newstead
Jane Seymour Fonda - Judy Bernly

“- Beast: You said you'd never leave.
- Belle: I wasn't trying to leave. I was just trying to make you happy.
- Beast: You broke your word. And for that, you'll rot in this dungeon forever.
- Belle: I should've known you'd never be anything - but a beast.”
Robby Benson - Beast
Paige O'Hara - Belle

“- Andy Dufresne: If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you're a Rembrandt!
- Andy Dufresne: Yeah. The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to...” (continue)(continue reading)

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

“- Ellie Sawyer: What are we going to do?
- Vince Latello: About one to five with good behavior.”

Danielle von Zerneck - Ellie Sawyer
Fisher Stevens - Vince Latello

“- Eve: How long will I have to wait?
- Noodles: A year and a half, more or less. Six months off for good behaviour.
- Eve: What are you gonna do?
- Noodles: Don't ask.”
Darlanne Fluegel - Eve
Robert De Niro - Noodles

“- Belle: How can you be so selfish?
- Beast: You cannot possibly understand. You have no idea what it's like to lose everything, to be trapped in your own castle, to be a...
- Belle: Prisoner? The only one holding us prisoner here is you.”
Paige O'Hara - Belle
Robby Benson - Beast

“- Frank White: How come you never came to see me?
- Jimmy Jump: Who wanted to see you in a cage, man?”
Christopher Walken - Frank White
Laurence Fishburne - Jimmy Jump

“- Christian: The prisoner is dead, sir!
- Bligh: Never mind, continue with the punishment!”
Clark Gable - Christian
Charles Laughton - Bligh

“It's better than prison.”

Rob Schneider - Fergie

“Prison sucks. I have to escape.”
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble

“It's simple in here. An insane place with insane rules. It all ends up being logical. If you're white, you hang white. Otherwise, the niggers are gonna eat you alive.”

F. Murray Abraham - Virgil Cane

“Ladies and gentlemen, you're being detained against your will, and for that I apologize. It is not our intention in any way to harm you, you will not be detained one minute longer than is necessary for us to complete our mission.”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“I've heard guys that you've sent to prison say that if you ever made a deal, you'd see yourself dead before you'd go back on it.”
Barton MacLane - Al Kruger

“Two things happen to a man in jail. He comes out a killer or he comes out a Christian.”
Namir Khan - Bartender