Rory O'Malley Quotes

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

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.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was, like, nine. I loved my father, don't get me wrong. I really loved him, but he wasn't a good dad, and he wasn't a good husband.

My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.

My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

Cyborg was the first superhero that I've ever seen whose parent was around but just was not there for him emotionally, mentally. I related to that in a big way because, growing up, it was my mother and grandmother that raised me and my brother and sisters. I'm the second youngest of five; my father was never in the picture.

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.

My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.