Children Quote by Patricia Arquette

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

— Flea

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

— Barbara Delinsky

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was…

— Tom Hooper

My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug…

— Melissa Febos

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When…

— David Duchovny

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young…

— Sam Shepard

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters,…

— Paula Danziger

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse…

— Augusten Burroughs

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as…

— Peter Coyote

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was…

— Walter Mosley

I was a very scared child.

— Christopher Bollen