Prison quotes

Most kids grow up with "don't fight me", "do your homework", "eat your dinner", "keep off the grass". Now for the first time this kid has found somebody who doesn't give a shit about the rules. A friend who probably listens to him, who scares him, he likes him, and who definitely never says, "what the hell do you know, you're just a kid". They... (continue)(continue reading)

Lindsay Wagner - Dr. Mennen

“- Detective Richie Roberts: I want to know everyone you've met for the last twenty years. Everyone you sold to. Every cop you ever paid off. Every one who ever stole from you. Every one you remember.
- Frank Lucas: Oh, I remember them all. That's not the problem.
- Detective Richie Roberts: What is?
- Frank Lucas: The jails aren't big enough.”
Russell Crowe - Detective Richie Roberts
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Brian O'Conner: You can't bet your dad's car.
- Jesse: It's all right. I ain't losin'. This fool is running a Honda 2000. I'll win. Then me and my dad can roll together when he gets out of prison. It's all good.
- Brian O'Conner: Well, they're gonna throw him right back in prison after he kills you.”

“You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”

“- Delgardo: Show me no mercy, give me no bail! I'm ready and willing to go to jail!
- Baxter: I'm not going to send you to jail for two reasons: first, I refuse to make a martyr of you, and second, it is still being redecorated.”
Billy Connolly - Delgado
Sir Michael Caine - Baxter

Last night as I was grading papers, I came across two gems both entitled "Cells are Bad" and both with just one paragraph which I unfortunately committed to memory: "Cells are bad. My uncle lives in a cell. It's ten foot by twelve and he has to read the same boring, old magazine everyday. The end".
David Duchovny - Ira

“- Dr. Sanders: If the sheriff did his duty, you'd be locked up in a cell!
- Carol Nelson: If the state did its duty, you'd be locked up in a cell - a padded cell!”
Arthur Aylesworth - Dr. Sanders
Kay Francis - Carol Nelson

“Whatever's in there has been safely hidden for two thousand years. This isn't a tomb, it's a prison.”
Annabelle Wallis - Jenny Halsey

“- James King: My life is ruined, because after thirty days I'm going to prison!... It's not as bad as I've heard, is it?
- Darnell Lewis: Hell yeah, it's bad!
- James King: Teach me how to survive in prison, the way you did!
- Darnell Lewis: [amazed] Tell me how you know I went to prison?
- James King: Given your low economic status, your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Will Ferrell - James
Kevin Hart - Darnell

“When I said you saved my life I wasn't talking about the night I arrested you. I meant you saved my life because you hired me. Albeit for the wrong reasons.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“This is a man bent on killing himself, it's not secret, a guard found him in his chambers once trying to hang himself! This is a man who's making value decisions on people's lives!”

Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“- Detective Keith Frazier: What do you think he's going to do?
- Madeleiene White: Well, he's not gonna kill anyone.
- Detective Keith Frazier: How do you know?
- Madeleiene White: Because he's not a murderer.
- Detective Keith Frazier: How do you know? I got news for you. Most of the guys up in Sing Sing weren't murderers until they killed...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denzel Washington - Detective Keith Frazier
Jodie Foster - Madeleine White

“We had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.”

Jena Malone - Johanna Mason

“- John Brennan: How did you get caught?
- Damon Pennington: I gave myself up. I couldn't take wondering when someone was gonna come through the bedroom door.”
Russell Crowe - John Brennan
Liam Neeson - Damon Pennington

“- General Al Kramer: Have you studied the architectural plans?
- Commander Anderson: They're useless. Alcatraz has been ripped up and rebuilt for years. Underneath is a maze of shit.”
Stuart Wilson - General Al Kramer
Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson

“- Philip Kimberley: I was going to get a Cabinet post. I might even be Prime Minister by now.
- Boris Medvachian: If you should go back to England now, you'll not get five years in the House of Commons, you'll get probably thirty years in Brixton jail.”
Sir Michael Caine - Philip Kimberley
Morteza Kazerouni - Boris Medvachian

“- Warren Fresnell: If he's not in jail this week, he'll be there next week! Appeal it!
- Arthur Kirkland: I can't appeal it, he's dead! He's dead! Half hour after they put him in the lockup, he hanged himself!”

Larry Bryggman - Warren Fresnell
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“- Briseis: Am I still your captive?
- Achilles: You're my guest.
- Briseis: Guests can leave whenever they want.”
Rose Byrne - Briseis
Brad Pitt - Achilles

“This is what you should be thinking about: Who you are... in this moment of time... and who you want to be. You get one life. You decide how you're gonna spend it. Fortunately... there is no better place for self-reflection... than detention.”
Marc Evan Jackson - Principal Bentley

“- Master Patrolman Andy Landers: Black bitch, you get this Black Panther out of Colorado Springs before sunrise, you hear me? Or you'll all go to jail.
- Kwame Ture: We were born in jail!”

Frederick Weller - Master Patrolman Andy Landers
Corey Hawkins - Kwame Ture

“See what happened when it was time to come down on a nigger. It's like smoking, they've got to have a nigger every 20 minutes.”

Robert Christian - Ralph Agee

“- Principal Buchanan: It's like a prison yard out there.
- Mr. Arthur: Don't you think you're overreacting just a little bit?”

Romany Malco - Principal Buchanan
Ken Jeong - Mr. Arthur

“No prison in the world is airtight.”
Liam Neeson - Damon Pennington

“I never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while, 'cause I ordered some pizza.”
Eddie Murphy - Axel Foley

“I'm not ashamed to admit it: my first time in prison, I was terrified. For a moment, I had forgotten I lived in a world where everything was for sale.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jordan Belfort