Tatum O'Neal Quotes
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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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.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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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.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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Certain struggles never end.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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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.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.