Viola Davis Quotes

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Every family is dysfunctional.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

All families are liable to have degenerate members.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I had a very rough upbringing.

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

Growing up in a trailer, you think everything you get is good. I always thought it was a gift from God, because some people are out here struggling and on the street. We had warmth. We had clothes. We had a roof over our head.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.

I came from a broken family.

Growing up was very difficult.

Most families are dysfunctional.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.