Ben Barnes Quotes

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Prison matures you.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

I'm all about people being able to redeem themselves.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.