Laurie Graham Quotes

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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

My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

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.

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.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

My parents hate each other, and I think that's why I never wanted anyone to get close to me.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]