Family Dysfunction Quotes

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

My family is broken.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That's what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.