Prison quotes

“This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?”
Tilda Swinton - Karen Crowder

“- Warden Norton: [to new inmates, after explaining the prison routine] Any questions?
- Prisoner: When do we eat?
- Captain Hadley: You eat when we say you eat. You piss when we say you piss, and you shit when we say you shit. You got that, you maggot dick motherfucker?”
Bob Gunton - Warden Norton
Clancy Brown - Captain Hadley

“You gotta make a choice: when to do something, and when to let it go. When it matters, and when it doesn't. Bide your time. That's what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly.”
Terence Stamp - Wilson

“The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on Earth.”
Peter O'Toole - Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston

“Benjamin! You nasty youth, your crime has shocked me to the core. Never in my whole career have I encountered this before. Guards! Seize him! Lock him in a cell. Throw the keys into the Nile as well.”
Donny Osmond - Joseph

“- Ernest Paxton: Mr. Mason, I'm Special Agent-in-Charge Ernest Paxton.
- John Patrick Mason: In charge of what? Fucking me over for another three decades?
- Ernest Paxton: I don't know anything about your previous matters. We've brought you here because there's a situation that we think you can help us with.
- John Patrick Mason: And what might...” (continue)(continue reading)

William Forsythe - Ernest Paxton
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason

“- Robby: So, what are you in for?
- Jimmy Rainwood: You don't understand, I don't belong here.
- Robby: Yeah, you're right! Nobody belongs in this shithole! Tough being a victim, huh?”

Todd Graff - Robby
Tom Selleck - Jimmie Rainwood

“- Valo: Yo, what was it like though, being in jail for the first time? Was it good?
- Ry: Just drop it.
- Valo: Did you meet any new friends?
- Ry: Just drop it, alright?”
Bam Margera - Valo
Ryan Dunn - Ry

“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You will go to prison.
- Agent Frank Haddad: You know what happens to women in prison?
- Elise Kraft: Mmmmm... yummm!”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Tony Shalhoub - Frank Haddad
Annette Bening - Elise Kraft

“You guys have the weirdest goodbye rituals.”

Paul Rudd - Scott Lang

“If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to US. Alcatraz is not like any other prison in the United States. Here, every inmate is confined alone... to an individual cell.”
Patrick McGoohan - Warden

“There are inmates and there are convicts. A convict has a certain code. And he knows to show a certain respect. An inmate, on the other hand, pulls the pin on his fellow man.”
Yorick van Wageningen - The Guv

“High school is a lot like prison: bad food, high fences, the sex you want you ain't getting, the sex you getting you don't want.”
Eddie Griffin - Luther

“- Clifford Franklin: Coach, ain't that stuff illegal?
- Jimmy McGinty: What are they going to do? Put you in football jail?”

Orlando Jones - Clifford Franklin
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“I burned out, okay? I'd spend six months putting a guy inside and then in a day his lawyer would have him back out on the street.”
Robert Urich - Ruben Castle

“When I was young, just your age, I was very poor, I was starving. One day, I stood in front of the window. A window full of bread, there was just glass between me... and not being hungry anymore, it was so easy. So I broke it and took what I wanted. Then they caught me and put me in chains for almost 19 years. They did things to me... and I did...” (continue)(continue reading)

Liam Neeson - Valjean

“- Gwen Cummings: You don't honestly think I'm going to jail, do you?
- Cornell: No? For driving drunk, crashing into a house, knocking over a lawn jockey that could have been a four-year-old child?
- Gwen Cummings: Yeah, but it wasn't, it was a four-year-old lawn jockey.”
Sandra Bullock - Gwen Cummings
Steve Buscemi - Cornell

“Don't bother arresting them. Let their husbands deal with them.”
Brendan Gleeson - Inspector Arthur Steed

“Besides, what the hell could we lose? Either we get the money or we get caught. We're winners either way.”

George Burns - Joe

“- Cindy Campbell: We have to call the police!
- Ray Wilkins: No way! I ain't going to jail!
- Greg Phillippe: He's right! Cindy, do you know what they do to young boys in prison? All of those sex-starved convicts just waiting for a fresh piece of meat?
- Ray Wilkins: Hey, Cindy's right. Maybe we should call the police.”

Anna Faris - Cindy Campbell
Shawn Wayans - Ray Wilkins
Lochlyn Munro - Greg Phillippe

“Dude, it's not big deal if you like to fuck guys. I'm cool, I got friends who fuck guys… in jail.”
Romany Malco - Jay

“If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government, not the bodies of women, that shall be broken.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“When I'm walking free, I'm gonna stab you in your eyes.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Inmate 178

“I guess these guys, they just want to go to jail. Probably feel at home there.”

Brad Pitt - Jackie

“You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.”
George Takei