Tatum O'Neal

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.

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

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

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.