Oz quotes

Hill

Oz, that's the name on the street for the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary. Oz is retro, Oz is retribution. You wanna punish a man? Separate him from his family, separate him from himself, cage him up with his own kind.

Schillinger

Like my tattoos? I'm going to get you one.

Beecher

No, thanks.

Schillinger

Oh, yeah, I'm going to brand you myself.

Beecher

Livestock gets branded.

Schillinger

Yeah, livestock, that's what you are... my livestock. Because now, Tobias, your ass belongs to me.

Wittlesey

There's something in the air. And it ain't love.

Said

I would give my life for you.

Keane

You gonna have to.

Tim, we gotta talk.

McManus

About what?

About sex.

McManus

Sister, you're insatiable.

He ate his mother.

Nino

Get the fuck out of here!

So I heard. He killed her, then he broiled her head. Smothered it in onions.

What, no garlic?

Augustus Hill

Oz is where I live. Oz is where I will die, where most of us will die. What we were don't matter. What we are don't matter. What we become don't matter. Does it?

Tim McManus

In Em City we treat each other the way that we would like to be treated. We treat each other with respect.

Kareem Said

And what happens when one of us does not respect the other?

Tim McManus

There's violence.

Kareem Said

Then prison life isn't all that different from the outside world.

Tim McManus

Your celebrity status doesn't buy you any extra advantages here. All my prisoners are equal.

Kareem Said

How ironic. To finally be an equal in a place where I do not have the freedom to enjoy it.

Augustus Hill

People kill to stay alive. That's as true in prison as out. I wonder why in here we fight so hard to stay alive. A man gets sentenced to 100 years, he really thinks if he exercises, gets all buff, stays diesel, he's gonna walk out? A judge says life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Without the possibility. Lifers. At some point they realize they ain't going nowhere. I seen it happen. A calm comes in their eyes. It's like they figured out something that the rest of us are never gonna see. They're suddenly free in a whole other kinda way. They're ready to die. And maybe they do what they can to help that shit along.

Donald Groves. You killed your parents and ate them, right?

I only ate my mom. I was saving my dad for Thanksgiving.

That's festive.

I saw 'em carry him out. Looked like a roasted, broiled chicken. His flesh was all brown and crispy. He looked good enough to eat.

No? He's ordering you around all day, "boy do this, boy do that", it never pissed you off?

Keane

He never called me "boy".

You not gonna kiss the bride? (Adebisi grabs Keane and tries to kiss him)

Hill

God made sunsets full of color and God made race horses that run in a flash. God made the orange, the apple and strawberries, but God's greatest creation is pussy. I don't mean to be crude or nothing but... you can have all the sunsets, horses and fruit there is, just give me all the pussy in the world. Fuck, I don't need all the pussy, just one a day. Every day.

Rebadow

God comes to visit me every once in a while. Actually, he comes more often than I'd like but it's God. What can I say? That I'm busy, that I'm in the shower? He knows.

We talking about a burning bush here?

Rebadow

No, it's more like a strobe. A little too flashy, a little cheesy for my taste.