60 Movie Quotes about Prison (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

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.

31 In exchange for information, I'll give you protection. I'll do better than that, I'll put you in jail.

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

32 But what if I did murder my husband? What would you think of me then? -I'd wait for you to get out of prison, baby. It's not like my social calendar is exactly packed. How long can a murder sentence be, 30, maybe 40 years?

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)

33 Clark, I'm in jail. No, not really. Just visiting.

Noel Neill as Lois Lane in Superman (1948)

34 20 years! Holy God. What for? -Bad luck. -I guess you can say that again.

Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

35 What is the slammer? -You remember that room you were in? -I will never forget it. -Well, the slammer's just like that.

Peter Cullen as Karr in Knight Rider (1982)

36 Where will you be watching the world consume me from? That's right. A prison cell. I'll send you a bar of soap.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark Iron Man in Iron Man 2

37 What is this place? -It reeks of children. -It is a prison for children.

Kathy Najimy as Mary Sanderson; Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Sanderson; Bette Midler as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson; Winifred Winnie Sanderson; The Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus

38 Prison life consists of routine and then more routine.

Quote from The Shawshank Redemption

39 Filling out there. Must be that prison food. -No, no, no, that's... That's married life.

Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow; Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

40 In... what way... does the author's use of the prison symbolize.... the protagonist's struggle?

Quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off