169 Movie Quotes about Jail (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 They'll put me in jail. I'll probably go to hell. -Ha, ha. Same difference, Phillip. Same difference.

Kevin Costner as Robert Butch Haynes in A Perfect World

82 Is he over at the jail? -He's still sheriff, though I don't know why.

John Wayne as Cole Thornton; Charlene Holt as Maudie in El Dorado (1966)

83 Hey, we're gonna get you out of there, man. -All we gotta do is raise ten percent of one million, yo. -Which, by our calculations... -Is _ing impossible, man!

Dave Chappelle as Brian; Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins; Jim Breuer as Brian in Half Baked

84 There! This will be your home! This a-nice little cage, where I can find-a you always.

Charles Judels as Stromboli in Pinocchio (1939)

85 They're gonna hang me. -And how do you feel about that? -Well, to tell the truth, I'll be glad to get out of that cell. It's so drafty.

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

86 So that explains it. -He was in jail. -And there was a phone. -But he only got one call so he had to call his lawyer.

Steve Zahn as George in You've Got Mail

87 There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

88 How old is the boy, I asked? -He's 18 months now. -Just the time that I was in jail.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in For a Few Dollars More

89 Well, we'll get that Pepi. We got a special little gadget up in Sing Sing that'll just melt him away.

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue in All Through the Night (1942)

90 Not in the modern educational system. They don't spank kids anymore. -They just send them to jail.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat; Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh in Shockproof (1949)

169 Movie Quotes about Jail (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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