Marc Webb Quotes

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I grew up without a father figure.

My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

It's so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It's such a big part of my life.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.