Quotes from Tatum O'Neal

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I was a scrawny, knock-kneeded little waif at seven with tangles in my hair and no acting training (in fact, with little formal schooling at all), but Peter took me on. He'd later say that it was my scrappy attitude that got me the job.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation. I've overcome abandonment and abuse. I've overcome physical and mental brutality, and fought back. I've triumphed over addiction.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Certain struggles never end.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.