Prison quotes

“- Hoppie Gruenewald: Where did you learn to box like that?
- P.K.: Prison, sir.”
Ian Roberts - Hoppie Gruenewald
Stephen Dorff - P.K.

“That first night in jail, that's real fear.”
50 Cent - Kanan

“Prison is for assholes.”
Omari Hardwick - James 'Ghost' St. Patrick

“I was just thinking. A black man sleeping with a white woman in South Africa. A few years ago, I could have gotten life in prison for doing something like that.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Langston Whitfield

“I’m not the same fool you sent off to prison 18 years ago.”
Manolo Cardona - Alex

“I have been here for less than two weeks. I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Taylor Swift.”
Taylor Schilling - Piper Chapman

“The jails are full with innocent people because they told the truth.”
Lou Jacobi - Moustache

“- Ricky Knight: I'd just got out of prison.
- Hugh: Prison? What was that for?
- Ricky Knight: Mainly violence.”
Nick Frost - Ricky Knight
Stephen Merchant - Hugh

“- Pete Menzies: Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: Nobody.
- Pete Menzies: Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.”
Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan

“- Leonard Vole: But this is England, where I thought you never arrest, let alone convict, people for crimes they have not committed.
- Sir Wilfrid: We try not to make a habit of it.”
Tyrone Power - Leonard Vole
Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Roberts

“- Helen Parr: Who did I put in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Pizza delivery guy. Seemed the right height, build. He gave you a pretty good fight. I should say I gave you a pretty good fight through him.
- Helen Parr: But it doesn't bother you that an innocent man is in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Eh, he was surly. And the pizza was cold.”
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr
Catherine Keener - Evelyn Deavor

“Prisons are bulging with dummies who wonder how they got there.”
Alexander Scourby - Mike Lagana

“- Philip Lacasse: Have you ever listened to opera?
- Dell Scott: Yeah. Opera's really big in prison. You can hardly get a seat on opera night.”
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott

- Dell Scott: You see, my dad was a artist.
- Philip Lacasse: He was?
- Dell Scott: Con. Con artist. I ain't never see him, though. Unless you wanna count the time we spent together in lockup. We was in prison together. Sweet, right? You know what he said when he saw me, man? He said, "welcome home". Can you imagine saying some shit like that... (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse

“I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.”

Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Bruce Lee: You're the one with the big mouth, and I would really enjoy closing it, especially in front of all my friends. But my hands are registered as lethal weapons. That means, we get into a fight, I accidentally kill you? I go to jail.
- Cliff Booth: Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It's called manslaughter.”
Mike Moh - Bruce Lee
Brad Pitt - Cliff Booth

“You're asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two fugitive apes? The answer is: a thousand times, yes.”
Ricardo Montalban - Armando

“The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.”
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“Time to empty our slop pails and run a little water over our faces, then back to our cells for the entire day. With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away...”

François Leterrier - Le lieutenant Fontaine

“I lived in a king's palace, in a cage just like this. I bit, and I scratched, and I spent my entire life fighting. Until one day, I just stopped, and they gave me their trust. Gain their trust, and they'll let you out.”

Christian Bale - Bagheera

“We're here to investigate a patient that killed three innocent teenagers on Halloween, 1978. He was shot by his own psychiatrist and taken into custody that night, and has spent the last forty years in captivity.”

Jefferson Hall - Aaron Korey

“From what you say, Oscar, it would seem that Reading Gaol is an enchanted castle. With the governor as its presiding elf.”
Colin Firth - Reggie Turner

“- Oscar Wilde: I met Christ in prison.
- Reggie Turner: And what was she in for?
- Oscar Wilde: Don't joke, Reggie. In the cell, there is only God and man.”
Rupert Everett - Oscar Wilde
Colin Firth - Reggie Turner

“- Tommy DeVito: Hey Nicky! Remember when we couldn't get arrested?
- Bob Gaudio: When was that, Tommy? When you were three?”
Vincent Piazza - Tommy DeVito
Erich Bergen - Bob Gaudio

“- Carla: Are you crazy?
- Maddy Whittier: Wouldn't you be if you'd been inside for 18 years?”
Ana de la Reguera - Carla
Amandla Stenberg - Maddy