Troubled Past Quotes

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

Of all my childhood memories, I don't have any good ones.

I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or would ever happen again 'There's a boy in my life,' I told him. 'He's a very bad influence.' Then Zach nodded. 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.

The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.