Criminal Past Quotes

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

I’ve got no criminal record.

I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I know prisons from the inside.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

These men who come out of prison have offended against society, they cannot expect that society will immediately forget their offense. On the other hand, for its own protection, society would do well to make it possible at least for such men and women as really wish to go straight, to go straight. We must face the fact that once a person has found it possible to get a living in crooked ways, they have a knowledge which makes it easier to return to those ways than if they had never known them. Therefore it is harder to keep in the straight and narrow path of virtue!