Quotes tagged ‘Prison’

“Yes, Makeda is home, but she has a mom and a daughter to help support, housing to find, food and medical bills to pay, a job to look for. All the responsibilities of middle age with none of the stability.”

— Stephanie Clifford, marieclaire.com

“It's just two complete opposite, different worlds. You know, he's a little more upscale, and I'm working with people that just got out of prison.”

— Joe Exotic , imdb.com

“Charlie Tweeder: Will you listen to me? Bitches are all just panty-droppers. You understand? That’s it. Mox: What? Charlie Tweeder: Listen. You give ‘em a Percocet, two Vicodin and a couple of beers, and the panties drop. It’s very nice. Mox: [laughing] Charlie Tweeder: [emphatically] It’s nice. Mox…”

— W. Peter Iliff, Charlie Tweeder, Scott Caan, imdb.com

“I was raised in how to stay alive, how to stay out of prison, what's the right moves to make so you don't lose your life.”

— Meek Mill, imdb.com

“They ain't gonna get me again.”

— Ava DuVernay, Robin Swicord, Raymond Santana, Freddy Miyares, imdb.com

“Books are also important in real-life prisons; you can donate books requested by inmates by looking at their wish lists.”

— Christine Ro, bookriot.com

“[April 26, 1988: Alone in his apartment in Moscow, Professor Valery Legasov replays his voice on a tape recorder] What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do the…”

— Craig Mazin, Valery Legasov, Jared Harris, imdb.com

“My solace can become my prison.”

— Noah Centineo, twitter.com

“After a stay in the prison, people say, ‘This is not a prison, the real prison is where we return to.”

— Alan Taylor, theatlantic.com

“Jim: What'd you do, Prison Mike? Michael: I stole...and I robbed...and I kidnapped the president's son...and held him for ransom. Jim: That is quite the rap sheet, Prison Mike. Michael: And I never got caught neither. Jim: Well, you were in prison, but..mhm.”

— Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, John Krasinski, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, imdb.com

“Today is the day that I am getting my freedom back. I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real-estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired.”

— Michael Cohen, businessinsider.com

“It's the national pastime, baby, stealin' and cheatin'. If they ever count every cheatin' wife and tax chiseler, the whole country would be behind prison walls.”

— Richard Brooks, Richard 'Dick' Hickcock, Scott Wilson, imdb.com

“They wouldn’t let me come out of solitary confinement. I was in there going crazy.”

— Sonya Calico, buzzfeednews.com

“Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch? Luke: I don't know, Boss. Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.”

— Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce, Luke Jackson, Paul Newman, imdb.com

“Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking. 'Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good. Luke: Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain.”

— Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce, Luke Jackson, Paul Newman, imdb.com

“Every time I look out the window I see myself out there, standing in the street. I’ve got it to the point now where I can see my own shadow.”

— Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin, Richard Matt, Benicio del Toro, imdb.com

“I'm not nervous. I'm soaking up this powerful moment whereby I take matters into my own hands and, you know, risk going to prison.”

— Emily Kapnek, Ginger Foutley (voice), Melissa Disney, imdb.com

“Putting more bars on the prison is not the answer.”

— Sang Kyu Kim, Pierluigi D. Cothran, Alex Kirkman, Natascha McElhone, imdb.com

“Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners.”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Johnny Ola, Dominic Chianese, imdb.com

“Sarah: What is this place? Mary Sanderson: It reeks of children! Winifred Sanderson: It is a prison for children.”

— Mick Garris, Neil Cuthbert, David Kirschner, Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Bette Midler, imdb.com