Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Tatum O'Neal

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Tatum O'Neal.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, winning at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon (1973) opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She also starred as Amanda Wurlitzer in The Bad News Bears (1976), followed by Nickelodeon (1976), and Little Darlings (1980). O'Neal later appeared in guest roles in Sex and the City, 8 Simple Rules and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. From 2006 to 2007, she portrayed Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV drama series Wicked Wicked Games.

American - Actress | Born: November 5, 1963

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

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

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

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Certain struggles never end.

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I've triumphed over addiction.

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

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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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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

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

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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

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

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

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Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Tatum O'Neal

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