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

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.

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

Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain.

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.