Prison quotes

“Your dad will go to jail, your mother too. After all she's the one who paid for it all, that makes her an accomplice. Do you even know what it's like in jail?”
Jared Rushton - Ron Thompson

“- Clarence Anglin: Thought we'd pay you a visit.
- Frank Morris: Gonna stay long?
- John Anglin: Not long. Only about fifteen or twenty years.”

Jack Thibeau - Clarence Anglin
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris
Fred Ward - John Anglin

“The one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“It's a prison. There's no trouble getting in, the problems will come when we want to get out.”
John Malkovich - Athos

“Captain James Macleane, for drunkenness, unruly behavior, causing an affray and disturbing the King's, I hereby sentence you to be placed in the Knightsbridge debtors' jail and to be held there until you are sober. Take him away.”
Michael Culkin - Judge Beresteade

“- Chon Wang: I got an idea: why don't I pretend I'm sick, and then you can attack the guard when they come in?
- Roy O'Bannon: Oh, you mean the sick prisoner routine? Does that still work in China? 'Cause here it's sorta been done to death.”
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“- Jarra: Hello, Jay. Long time.
- Jay: Jarra! What's up, man? Wow, you look great! Been, what, five years?
- Jarra: And forty-two days, thanks to you. You count every one when you're locked away like a primate.”
John Alexander - Jarra
Will Smith - Jay

“Damn. Prison changed you.”

Skylar Astin - Jesse

“One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic.
[looks disgusted, picks something up with his pen]
One soiled.”

Frank Oz - Corrections Officer

“- Amy Szalinski: I'm not even going to tell you one more time to shut up.
- Ron Thompson: And then what? Then you'll smack me? You'll go to jail too. I'll tell them after a big bee ate my brother you smacked me around. No jury in the world would fail to convict you. The whole Szalinski family is going to be in jail for life...”
Amy O'Neill - Amy Szalinski
Jared Rushton - Ron Thompson

“- Eileen Gallagher: Why would someone want to take the place of a guy going to prison?
- Marth: He gets into the country without a passport. He's here, nobody knows he's here.”
Joanna Cassidy - Eileen Gallagher
Marco St. John - Marth

- Carr's Attorney: Last time I checked, six counts of manslaughter is life in prison.
- Avington Carr: Life in prison. What we in Georgia call "all day long".
Ric Reitz - Carr's Attorney
Peter Gerety - Avington Carr

“- Sylvia: What right do you have to take a baby and turn his life into some kind of mockery? Don't you ever feel guilty?
- Christof: I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
- Sylvia: He's not a performer, he's a prisoner. Look at him, look...” (continue)(continue reading)
Natascha McElhone - Sylvia
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Clay: Where to?
- Ranger Holt: Travis county jail.
- Clay: Well that ain't good.”

Lucas Calhoun - Clay
Shea Whigham - Ranger Holt

“Look at me, Lord. I was better off in the dungeons of Aquila. My cellmate was insane, and a murderer... but he respected me!”

Matthew Broderick - Gaston

“You look good. You got the jail pale. It suits you.”

John Goodman - Uncle Sweetheart

“Sometimes I think that's all this place is. One... long... count. The prisoners count the hours, the bulls count the prisoners and the king bulls count the counts.”
Paul Benjamin - English

“- Brian O'Connor: Man, when did you start eating so much?
- Roman: I was in jail, breh. I know how shitty the grub is on the inside. With the way things are shaping up out here right now, it'll be a matter of time before I'm back in there, or dead. So I'm trying to eat all I can, while I can. Plus, the doctor tell me I got a high metabolism.”
Paul William Walker IV - Brian O'Conner
Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce

“So, I just wait here then?”

Steve Martin - Lucky Day

“- Rusty Ryan: We could turn ourselves in. Go to jail. Nothing Benedict could do to us there.
- Danny Ocean: Yeah, good idea. We all go to the cops and confess to the Bellagio robbery. That averages twenty years for grand larceny for each of us. Yeah, that'd teach him.”

Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan
George Clooney - Danny Ocean

“- Sgt. Johnny Gallagher: I think you're going to prison, Walter.
- Thomas Boyette: You don't know where I'm going.”
Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
Tommy Lee Jones - Thomas Boyette

“- Col. Winter: Mr. Irwin, these men are not here for unpaid parking fines, or misdemeanors.
- Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin: I'm under no illusion as to why the men are here, Colonel. I just thought that they might be reminded of some of the good things they've done, instead of only the worst.”
James Gandolfini - Col. Winter
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“When you get out of jail, you'll be more concerned with your arthritis than your libido.”

Kenneth McMillan - Cressner

“- Natalia: You pig! Do you think that things will ever be the same again between us?
- Krokov: For the moment, I don't care. But remember, Natalia, while you are here in this comfortable, but inpenetrable fortress, your every move will be watched.”
Barbara Carrera - Natalia
Oliver Reed - Krokov

“- Bill Blazejowski: Chuck, come on, it looks bad in front of the other guys!
- Chuck Lumley: So what am I running for, cell president?
- Bill Blazejowski: No!... they have that?”

Michael Keaton - Bill Blazejowski
Henry Winkler - Chuck Lumley