Charlie Murphy Quotes

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

My pop did a little time.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

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

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

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.

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

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

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed.

Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.