Tatum O'Neal Quotes

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

  Tatum O'Neal

  Abuse, Hitting, Normal

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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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  Dad, Awards, Attention

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

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  Anger, Bitterness, Bitter

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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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  Crush, Might, Overwhelming Force

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

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  Overcoming, Brutality

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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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  Mother Daughter, Play, Scripts

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

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  Children, Forgiving, My Children

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• I've triumphed over addiction.

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  Recovery, Addiction

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

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  Boyfriend, Father, Tears

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

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  Thinking, Shows, Feels

  "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 22, 2003.

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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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  Children, Kids, Moon

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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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  Moon, Ties, Working Together

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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.

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  Sex, Party, Drug

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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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  Brother, Father, Teeth

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

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  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming

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• Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

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  Moon, Paper

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

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  Influence, Sloppy

  "Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

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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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  Children, Confused, Acting

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

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  Call Me, Temper, Abusive

  "Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

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• Certain struggles never end.

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  Struggle, Ends, Certain

  "Is There an O'Neal Family Curse?" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. February 7, 2007.

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