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

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.

And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules