[Red places his bet on Andy]
Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
Warden Samuel Norton: Do you enjoy working in the laundry?
Andy Dufresne: No sir, not especially.
Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Red: No.
Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
Red: The man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks.
Warden Samuel Norton: I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.
Captain Hadley: If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the night I swear by God and sonny Jesus you will all visit the infirmary. Every last motherf***er in here.
District Attorney: And that also is very convenient, isn't it, Mr. Dufresne?
Andy Dufresne: Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, I find it decidedly 'inconvenient' that the gun was never found.
Captain Hadley: Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.
Captain Hadley: What is your malfunction, you fat barrel of monkey spunk?
Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Tommy Williams: I don't read so good.
Andy Dufresne: Well.
[Pause]
Andy Dufresne: You don't read so 'well'. Uh, we'll get to that.
Red: [Narrating] Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
Red: [Narrating] Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.
Fat Ass: You don't understand! I'm not supposed to be here!
Inmates: Me neither! They run this place like a f***ing prison!
Andy Dufresne: [In letter to Red] Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Fat Ass: I don't belong here! I want to go home! I want my mother!
Another Prisoner: I had your mother, she wasn't that great!
Captain Hadley: [To Andrew Dufresne] You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.
Warden Samuel Norton: Lord! It's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind!
[Watching Rita Hayworth in Gilda]
Red: This is the part I really like, when she does that shit with her hair.
Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Floyd: Red, I do believe you're talking out of your ass.
Red: You're gonna fit right in. Everyone in here is innocent, you know that? Heywood, what you in here for?
Heywood: Didn't do it. Lawyer f***ed me.
Red: I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.
[Tommy and Red are talking about Andy]
Tommy Williams: What's he in here for, anyway?
Red: Murder.
Tommy Williams: [Impressed] The hell you say!
[Tommy receives a letter from the Board of Education]
Red: You gonna open it, or stand there with your thumb up your butt?
Tommy Williams: Thumb up my butt sounds better.
Andy Dufresne: I was in the path of the tornado... I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.
Heywood: [Sizing up the new inmates] I ain't seen such a sorry lookin 'heap o' maggot shit in all my life.
Red: I don't know; every man has his breaking point.
Andy Dufresne: Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.
