Jack Abramoff Quotes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I know prisons from the inside.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

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

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.

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

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

I did get to Beersheba [in Israel], but only to prison there. It was actually very nice, with television and free international calls. I would recommend it even over many hotels I have known. It was a shame to leave.

I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

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

I really don't like being in jail.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

I never thought the media would be interested in me - this is very surreal.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.