Unstable Childhood Quotes

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

I went to seven different elementary schools.

When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money.

I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they're like, 'Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?' I'm like, 'No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.'

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.

I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. I changed schools eight or nine times.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

We lived in eight or nine different houses and six or seven different apartments growing up.