Brian Banks Quotes

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

After certain ups and downs, a person does change, and I have changed for good.

Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

With time, you do get mature.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back to the prisons and probation camps and the inner city to say that you don't have to go through the violence, through the trauma like I did.

It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.

A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This is what it is - how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?'

Going to Charlotte and being there two years, I missed L.A., but it was good for me.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.