Prison quotes

“- Jacob Rixley: What do you and your brothers think about a life sentence? I mean, you're lucky they don't allow hanging in this state. Come on, Cole, tell me what you think about this.
- Cole Younger: Ah, hell. We played a rough game... and we lost.”
James Whitmore Jr. - Mr. Jacob Rixley
David Carradine - Cole Younger

“Control? You know, sometimes when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.”
Hugh Jackman - Logan

“- Frank Lucas: Let me ask you something. You think by putting me in jail, you're going to stop even one junkie from dying? Because you won't. If it isn't me, it'll be someone else. With me or without me, nothing's going to change.
- Detective Richie Roberts: Then that's the way it is.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas
Russell Crowe - Detective Richie Roberts

“Now, I want you to remember that you sit here as representatives of your community, your neighbors, your friends, your children. If you should decide to let this man go free, be absolutely clear in your mind that you are condemning his victims to a second death and saying to your neighbors that the life of a terrible murderer is worth more than...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Biehn - Anthony Fraser

“- Mona Lisa Vito: Don't worry, I'll find a way to bail you out.
- Vinny Gambini: No don't. I'm gonna stay in prison tonight. Maybe I'll finally get some sleep. I'm doing good, huh?”

Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“I spent most of my time since I grew up in jail - it looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead.”
Humphrey Bogart - Duke Mantee

“They've built their own prison, so they exist a state of schizophrenia. They're both guards and prisoners and as a result they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made, or to even see it as a prison.”
Himself - Andre Gregory

“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz... alive.”
Patrick McGoohan - Warden

“Like in real, really, really, really, really real prison? The hoose-gow, the slammer, the joint, Alcatraz, San Quentin, Sing Sing, Oh no. I'm in... I'm in... jail!”
Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell

“I'd cut my own throat before I'd let you bring me into custody. Because, number one, I'm a cop. You know what happens to cops in jail? Not pretty. And number two, you're the last person I'd let collect the money. Because you're a goddamn lunatic who ran me over because I didn't call after I nailed you.”

Jason O'Mara - Joe Morelli

“Chiunque sia rinchiuso in prigione per crimini violenti ha avuto un'infanzia da incubo.”
Rob Reiner

“They put Francie Brady in the garage for bad bastards and gave him a new job making baskets. And after he'd made a million trillion baskets they said they'd let him out again.”
Stephen Rea - Narrator

“- Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains afer a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking. 'Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.
- Luke: Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain.”
Strother Martin - Captain
Paul Newman - Luke

“What kind of damn fool do you think I am? I'm still in prison for doing the same thing you're about to ask me to do again.”
Steven Seagal - Cody

“I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me... and I promise you, upon my liberation, I will have satisfaction for this wrong.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup

“What was I doing in jail? What I was doing, let me advise you, was fixing to shoot some motherfucker working in that hospital, that's what I was doing.”
Ving Rhames - Lt. Reilly

“You Americans, you always assume you must do something before you can be arrested.”
Alex Camacho - Silvio

“I put evil men behind bars, but the law has miles of red tape and loopholes for these cocksuckers to slip through.”

Willem Dafoe - Paul Smecker

“In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt, and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin that he used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system.”
Ray Liotta - Henry Hill

“- Brian Cohen: Lay off, I've had a hard time!
- Ben: You've had a hard time? I've been here five years, they only hung me the right way up yesterday.”

Graham Arthur Chapman - Brian Cohen
Michael Palin - Ben

“I know about loss, Max. I know about losing time, even losing years. And I know it doesn't compare to jail, but I can understand.”
Jessica Lange - Leigh Bowden

“I don't wanna go back to jail again. Least not for more than a week or two.”
Laura Dern - Ruth Stoops

“I'm going back to Russia where I will stay until Terek Murad rots in prison or in the grave.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Preston

“- Javier: Are you going to visit her in Jail, Marco?
- JJ: Maybe you can get laid again.
- Lance: Make sure you get a woman's jail.
- Bobby: Why? He could get laid in a men's jail too, right?”

Daniel Villarreal - Javier
BT - JJ
Jake Johannsen - Lance
Louis Mandylor - Bobby Deluca

“Prisons are for tough guys. Prisons are for guys who beat each other up, lift weights, fuck each other.”
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie LaPlante