Sean Hayes Quotes

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

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

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

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

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

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 pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

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

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

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

The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.