Quotes About Transformation

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I was in chemical jail.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.

Roles constantly have to be redefined in any form of entertainment. Look back at the gangster pics of the 1930s and 1940s and the way James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart would play the part. These roles were redefined in the 1970s by Al Pacino and Rober DeNiro. And again in the 1990s by Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins.

It's good sometimes to have a character that starts as one thing and ends as another, but James Bond, Hercules, these are pretty enduring stories.

Maybe I can become the next James Bond.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I was playing 25Ks in Japan, and now I'm the... champion of Indian Wells. It's crazy.

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here.

Luke Cage is seen in 'Jessica Jones,' but he doesn't really come into his own until the 'Luke Cage' series. That's when you really see who he is.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

You must come to Jesus if you want to go to Heaven. He will change your nature; He will change all evil habits.

My thing is, get Jesus to come and live inside, and let Him start cleaning house.

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.