Robert Snodgrass Quotes

I had a very difficult upbringing.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

I didn't have a childhood.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

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

My childhood was appalling.

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

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.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

I never had a true childhood.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I didn't have a childhood.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.