Dysfunctional Dynamics Quotes

Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth.

I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.

The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives that are consistent and stable, domestic and happy.

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I come from a pretty strange family.

Every family is dysfunctional.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.