Eddie Marsan Quotes

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.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

I come from a single-parent family and my Mum is super liberal.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.