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" As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture. "
Picture
Wonderful
Say
" Certain struggles never end. "
Certain
Struggles
Never
" Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth. "
Father
Sometimes
Out
" I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers. "
Take
Responsibility
Problem
" I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema. "
Jewel
American
Cinema
" I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. "
Call
Temper
Me
" 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. "
Confused
Film
Never
" I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens. "
Sex
Party
Hollywood
" I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time. "
Like
Show
Think
" I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. "
Abuse
Overcome
Abandonment
" I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back. "
Back
Brutality
Mental
" I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. "
Myself
Anger
Bitterness
" I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me. "
Crush
Money
Me
" I've triumphed over addiction. "
Over
Addiction
Triumphed
" I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle. "
Punished
Whistle
Lifestyle
" My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself. "
Children
Time
Forgive
" Paper Moon didn't bring me love. "
Bring
Moon
Paper
" Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond. "
Together
Moon
Help
" Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them. "
Some
Past
Memories
" 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. "
Role
More
Daughter
" Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence. "
Things
Get
You
" 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. "
Good
Loving
Award
" When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself. "
Myself
Me
Just
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