Lisa Lutz Quotes

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.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

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

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

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.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.