Eddie Marsan Quotes

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

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

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bullies are just frightened people.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

I've been beat up pretty badly back in my day.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

I don't want to get punched all my life.