Louis Theroux Quotes

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So I grew up thinking that plucking characters out of the air was an extremely normal way to behave.

It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

I never watched much TV at home - it just wasn't part of our home culture.

I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Like most grandparents do, she would spend hours and hours in front of the TV box.

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

I'm a product of the different - whether it be institutional racialism, whether it might be growing up in a low-income area, whether it might be, you know, coming from my mother, my father. I'm a totally different person from my mother and father, but once again I'm from them. We all have our different souls, but I'm from them.

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

I was not aware of what my dad had accomplished. I grew up with him playing football.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.'

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

I think I'm a bit more of a rule-breaker than my mom. She's very sweet and very worried. She was valedictorian. I think I got a little bit of an edgier side from my dad.