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. - Tatum O'Neal
I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers. - Tatum O'Neal
Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them. - Tatum O'Neal
I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens. - Tatum O'Neal
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself. - Tatum O'Neal
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth. - Tatum O'Neal
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. - Tatum O'Neal
As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture. - Tatum O'Neal
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. - Tatum O'Neal
I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me. - Tatum O'Neal