Keith Miller Quotes

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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 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 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.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

I never felt like I had a mother.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.