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

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.

Women are no sheep.

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, ” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.