Jonathan Banks Quotes

I basically raised myself.

I was a latchkey kid, from 4 or 5 years old.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

I was a latchkey kid.

My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

There's never been a parent in my life.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own.

Black man, you are on your own.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.