Chuck Zito Quotes

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

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

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.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

I felt very accomplished staying busy in prison.

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

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.

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

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

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

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

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.

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

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.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

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

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

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

Prison matures you.

I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.