Alec Baldwin Quotes

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

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

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

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.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him. She left him after having six kids.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

I punched my mother out once.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.