Top 23 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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 overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

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

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.

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