21 Movie Quotes about Prohibition (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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

1 I'm not guilty. You're the one who's guilty. You lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty.

Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown in New Jack City

2 No more drinking in this town of intoxicating liquors. -Thank you. That, I feel sure, will be in the public interest.

Alec Guinness in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

3 Are you nuts or something? Stand on the 18th Amendment? You mean stand on the 5th Amendment. The 18th Amendment was for prohibition. -Well, that's just what I mean. Tell them you were drunk when you made out your taxes.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden; Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

4 Some barracks you got here. Hey, what are you, a retired bootlegger? -Nothing as dignified as that. I'm a banker.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson; Dana Andrews as Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

5 And the sale of all intoxicating and alcoholic drinks will cease. I mean it now!

John Wayne as Sean Thornton in The Quiet Man (1952)

6 Got a special tutor to read me all those books that were banned in Boston.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

7 Good old prohibition days. Say you should have seen the joint then. This is nothing. Back then we really had a turnover. Standing room only.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

8 Prohibition! That's what started most of these guys off. Whoopee!

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

9 It's a rotgut room. A holdover from Prohibition.

Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

10 Bootleggers in Prohibition had to have cars fast enough to outrun the Feds then they started racing each other.

Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

21 Movie Quotes about Prohibition (+ Sound Clips)

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