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

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.

Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Where music leads, I follow.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.