Certain struggles never end.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've triumphed over addiction.

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

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the fragrance of your skin is more sublime than that of all the perfumes of this world!

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.