Shawn Kemp Quotes

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.

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

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Everyone hits bottom their own way.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.