Kevin Mitnick Quotes

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

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

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

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

Let those who have been robbers, now become knights.

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

When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

I really was in jail with Robert Downey Jr.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

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.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

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

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

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

With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

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.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.