Prison quotes

“Understand this: When we lay our heads down here, we're all prisoners.”
Christian Bale - Capt. Joseph J. Blocker

“- Frank King: Are you fucking with me? Because if you are, I will fuck you.
- Dalton Trumbo: I've heard that line before. It sounded better in prison.”
John Goodman - Frank King
Bryan Cranston - Dalton Trumbo

“What kind of a monster am I? I mean, we can't have two men in the same cell. That's not humane. Well, there's only one thing to do. We'll just have to have an execution tonight.”
Rod Steiger - Kallin

“- Raphelson: You won't get away with this. I have friends, powerful friends!
- President Sawyer: And I'll make sure every single one of them joins you in prison!”
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“One day I woke up and found myself alone. Seemed like everybody I knew was either dead or in jail. They thought I was dead too. So I just did what any good dead person would do; I went off and raised me some horses. Twenty years.”
Sam Shepard - James

“- Willie Mays Hayes: What the hell league you been playing in?
- Rick Vaughn: California Penal...
- Willie Mays Hayes: Never heard of it. How'd you end up playing there?
- Rick Vaughn: Stole a car.”

Wesley Snipes - Willie Mays Hayes
Charlie Sheen - Rick Vaughn

“We go from third-rate schools to first class high-tech prisons.”
John Cusack - Father Mike Corridan

“- Kaulder: We don't destroy witches anymore, incarcerate them, taken the most powerful witches that walked the Earth and put them in one place.
- Dolan Thirty-Six: Witch prison.
- Kaulder: They've been waiting to be released, to exact revenge, we created the perfect coven.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dolan 36th
Vin Diesel - Kaulder

“I have a client in jail for a busted tail light and I can't get him out.”
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

"Me in Camp F"? What's this, a gay prison story?

Vic Reeves - Bendle

“Your men are not prisoners of war... you are common criminals!”
Soon-Tek Oh - Colonel Yin

“- Police Officer: Ma'am, are you under the influence of alcohol or any other controlled substance?
- Tree Gelbman: No! That is what I'm trying to... Wait. If I am, does that mean that you're going to arrest me and lock me in a jail cell?
- Police Officer: That's how it usually works.
- Tree Gelbman: I'm drunk!
- Police Officer: You are?
- Tree...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jimmy Gonzales - Police Officer
Jessica Rothe - Tree Gelbman

“- Barry Seal: I'm not working for TWA no more.
- Lucy Seal: No shit, Barry! Are you going to prison?
- Barry Seal: No, Ma'am.”
Tom Cruise - Barry Seal
Sarah Wright - Lucy Seal

“- SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger: Another busy day in the Sexual Crimes Unit. Who are the lovebirds?
- Sex Crimes Cop: Pure Aryan woman and a Polock. Caught right in the act. Coffee, please. Resettlement day for her, ten years hard labor for him. I just don't understand these people.
- SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger: Every time somebody makes love...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Kitchen - Jaeger
Neil Dudgeon - Sex Crimes Cop

“- Mrs. Cody: Jimmy! When did you get out of Alcatraz?
- Whitey Bulger: Oh, uh, that's nearly ten years ago.”
Jamie Donnelly - Mrs. Cody
Johnny Depp - James 'Whitey' Bulger

“- Martland: Can you think of a good reason why I shouldn't arrest you right now?
- Mortdecai: I eschew discomfort?”
Ewan McGregor - Martland
Johnny Depp - Mortdecai

“These banks practically destroyed this country. They crushed a lot of people's dreams, and nothing ever happened to them. We three old guys, we hit a bank. We get away with it, we retire in dignity. Worst comes to the worst, we get caught, we get a bed, three meals a day, and better health care than we got now.”

Sir Michael Caine - Joe Harding

“- Johnny 5: Am not human, but am a life-form, have soul. But him me killed to try.
- Fred Ritter: Hey wait a minute J5, what do you think you're gonna do?
- Johnny 5: Pursue! Capture! Incarcerate!”
Tim Blaney - Johnny 5
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“Ben learned something in his prison that I never learned in mine. Forgiveness.”
Charlize Theron - Libby Day

“How come no one has nailed Whitey Bulger? He seems to be involved in every crime in the city, and yet the Bureau keeps saying he's clean!”
Corey Stoll - Fred Wyshak

“I hear prison isn't so bad if you like it up the butt.”
Richard Pryor - Wally

“I know you know a lot of people, and with a good lawyer you'll get out of jail in a few years. And then I'll come for you. I'll find you, and we both know what's gonna happen.”

Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“- Nice Guy Eddie: Mr. Blonde was gonna kill you, then when we got back, he was going kill us, take the satchel of diamonds, and scram. I'm right about that, right? That's correct? That's your story?
- Mr. Orange: I swear on my mother's eternal soul that's what happened.
- Nice Guy Eddie: The man you just killed was just released from prison. He...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie
Tim Roth - Mr. Orange

“If Esperanza gets on that plane and makes it to a country that has no extradition treaties, we're fucked.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“The only place you're going to sing is in jail.”

Robert Walsh - Judge