Unfulfilled Childhood Quotes

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

My friends were raised by their maids. They didn't see their fathers, who used to travel for work, and there were facades of family vacations. I have grown up to be completely intolerant of fake relationships. That's because of how my parents were.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

I try to give my kids everything I never had.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.