Marisa Berenson Quotes

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

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.

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

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

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

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

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

The real demon in my life is my father.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

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.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

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

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.