169 Movie Quotes about Jail (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about jail, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Boy, let me tell you something. You know, them chains ain't medals. You get them for making mistakes.

Paul Newman as Lucas "Luke" Jackson in Cool Hand Luke

42 Well, then we're just gonna lay low and build time.

George Kennedy as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke

43 They'll put those bums away for 50 years. -Not good enough. They put her away for an eternity.

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

44 How did you ever get out of jail? Why didn't they hang you?

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett Ohara in Gone with the Wind (1939)

45 If you had it all to do over again, you'd do no differently. You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole but he's terribly terribly sorry he's going to jail.

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)

46 What the _? Hey, who locked the _ing door, huh? I don't like locked doors around here! They make me crazy and _! I was locked up, ese!

Rolando Molina as Baby Joker in Next Friday (2000)

47 When you spend 12 years on a level-4 prison yard, you become quite fond of little ol' girls like yourselves.

Ice Cube as Craig Jones in Friday After Next (2002)

48 It's good to be home, 'cause in the prison, dawg, ain't nothin' but the fellas, _.

Terry Crews as Damon Pearly in Friday After Next (2002)

49 You see, I learn good English now. Learned in white man's jail.

John Wayne as George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

50 Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

John Wayne as Ringo Kid in Stagecoach (1939)

169 Movie Quotes about Jail (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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