Philip Glenister Quotes

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.

When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

A lot of times when kids get in trouble they might get labeled or judged for mistakes that they made at a young age.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

I have seen bright young people all over this country in an ocean surrounded by the sharks of drugs, alcohol, violence, homicide, suicide, AIDS and teenage pregnancy while we argue over whose values we are going to teach.