Unconventional Family Dynamics Quotes

I never knew a regular childhood, but I was always surrounded by love.

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.

I have a weird definition of family; it's not the same as everyone else's.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

I always look for a story that hasn't been told in the same way. I don't care about a lot of the usual elements people use for a quick drama boost. I want to know, for example, what happens when a man who was victimized by his father tries to be a father to a woman sixty years his senior.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

My mother is not a naturally happy person and is very complex. She won't allow any of us to touch her. Not even my father hugs her. And, as a family, we never kiss each other. Yet we do have a close relationship.

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.