Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan O'Neal

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Ryan O'Neal.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Ryan O'Neal

Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal is an American actor and former boxer. He trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He later found success in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978). From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox television series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.
I'm not religious. I'm a fallen Catholic.
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew. — © Ryan O'Neal
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
I am flippant. That's one of my charms.
Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.
I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.
I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.
Darkness exists to make light truly count.
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me — Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick.
We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.
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