Neil Morrissey Quotes

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

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

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

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, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

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.

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression.

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.