Troy Deeney Quotes

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.

When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.

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

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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

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

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

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.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

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

I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.

'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.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.