59 Movie Quotes about Prison (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Oct 10, 2025

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

21 What do you think about that, huh? Spending time in some Arab prison. -After six months with you, I might just _ing volunteer.

Demi Moore as G.I. Jane in G.I. Jane

22 A word to you about escape. There is no barbed wire. No stockade. No watchtower. They are not necessary.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

23 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)

24 That girl's going places. -She sure is. Right back to prison. Today.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

25 I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

26 Prisons are bulging with dummies who wonder how they got there.

Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion in The Big Heat (1953)

27 Say, Lou, how about giving me another chance when I get out? -When do you get out? -15 years. -That's a date.

Gilbert Roland as Sergei Stanieff; Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

28 Well, now... are you comfortable? -They should have chairs like this in the prison. -Yes, yes. Most certainly they should. As I recall, the furniture is deplorable. Extremely bad taste. -Terrible. One might as well sit on the floor.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

29 When are you going to do something about that terrible furniture in your prison? Hmm? Well, we are not savages. This is not the Middle Ages. I mean, you are running a house of correction, not a torture chamber.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

30 Leonard! When will I see you again? -Well, if I'm not dead, you'll find me where I always am, in jail.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

59 Movie Quotes about Prison (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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