Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Quotes

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

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

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.

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.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

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

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

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.

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

My parents hate each other, and I think that's why I never wanted anyone to get close to me.