Nadine Labaki Quotes

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

I didn't really have many friends as a child.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I'm just at home all the time wearing jogging pants.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

I really don't go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.