Tina Fey Quotes

I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that, in such a tiny place. There's something disturbing about it.

What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.

I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and fathers. You wouldn't expect them to be behind bars.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.