Christopher Fowler Quotes

We all have our family issues from time to time.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

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

All of the drama with my family and me and my mom and the separation between us and all that crazy stuff - I actually wrote about that. I have a song called 'Dear Mom,' and it's about the trials and tribulations with my mom, so I wrote about that and just everything that I've been through.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

I'm going to have my moody times.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

All families are liable to have degenerate members.

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

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.

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.

I was a psycho in college.

My family is broken.

The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.

'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.