Mark Hunt Quotes

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

My father was just an evil man.

We all have enemies, but my enemies would probably describe me as surprisingly ruthless.

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work, and people should know that.

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

I know I am bad-tempered and unruly, so I like calling the shots.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

I'm not someone to joke around with.

Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

My father was not a man you wanted to mess with.

I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.