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

— Roger Avary

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

— Tommy Chong

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.

— Frank Abagnale

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.

— Tupac Shakur

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

— Ja Rule

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

— Merle Haggard

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

— Jeffrey Archer

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

— Alain Robert

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

— George Takei

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

— Gerry Cooney

I know I didn't want to get caught up in the cycle of drugs and violence that was around me. Deep down inside, I felt there was something better outside the situation I was in.

— Michael Oher