Robert Winston Quotes

I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want to give my children what I didn't have - a good role model.

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

My dad died when I was a kid, so I think it became a place for me to go where my mom knew that I was safe and taken care of and looked after.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I'm a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.