Tyler Perry Quotes

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

I never had a true childhood.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

The real demon in my life is my father.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I never was a child.

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.