Warden Samuel Norton: Do you enjoy working in the laundry?Andy Dufresne: No sir, not especially.
Andy Dufresne: If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination.Red: Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you're a Rembrandt!Andy Dufresne: Yeah. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Bogs Diamond: Now, I'm gonna open my fly and you're gonna swallow what I give ya to swallow. And after you swallow mine you're gonna swallow Rooster's cause ya done broke his nose and I think he oughta have something to show for it.Andy Dufresne: Anything you put in my mouth you're gonna lose.Bogs Diamond: Naw, you don't understand. You do that and I'll put all eight inches of steel in your ear.Andy Dufresne: All right. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims jaws open with a crowbar.Bogs Diamond: Where do you get this shit?Andy Dufresne: I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?
Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.Red: Forget?Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.Red: What're you talking about?Andy Dufresne: Hope.
