Quotes About Confinement

The entertainment business can't thrive without putting you in a box.

I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn't be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.

Space is tight inside a tank: very close confines, and you're permanently banging. Like in Brad Pitt's new movie 'Fury' - the clanking of metal is all you hear.

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.

True self-determination—as refugees and prisoners show us every day—is the freedom to hold one's own ideas, to live, however confined, in a spacious mind.

Mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn allemaal gelukkige. Dat was voordat ik erachter kwam dat het mijn lot was om in een kast opgesloten te worden om daar te sterven.

Denial is always a prison.

La diferencia entre ponerse una máscara, que siempre es ocasión de libertad, y que le obliguen a uno a ponérsela, es la misma que hay entre refugio y cárcel.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.