Wentworth Miller Quotes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

I know prisons from the inside.

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 went to prison, I paid my bill.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

I should still be in jail.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

First we pin the convict's badge on him: then we examine his case.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.