Greg Kinnear Quotes

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

No family is sane, is it?

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

My family's messed up, for real.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

My father told me abuse is generational.

Everyone has hiccups in their families.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Every family is dysfunctional.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.