Top 84 Tatum O'neal Quotes
#1. You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.
Channing Tatum
#2. In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.
Channing Tatum
#3. Can I know your name or do I need to keep calling you Ms. Sexy?" -Olivia
"Keep calling me Mr. Sexy. I like that." -Scott
Felicia Tatum
#4. There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.
Channing Tatum
#5. Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
Tatum O'Neal
#6. I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.
Marsha Thomason
#7. I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.
Channing Tatum
#8. I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
Channing Tatum
#9. 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.
Tatum O'Neal
#10. I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"
Jack Tatum
#11. I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Channing Tatum
#12. The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.
Channing Tatum
#13. I really like doing action. It's one of those things where I negotiate the world physically, I think, more than mentally. I enjoy running and jumping.
Channing Tatum
#14. Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.
Channing Tatum
#15. The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
#16. 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.
Tatum O'Neal
#17. Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.
Channing Tatum
#18. I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
Channing Tatum
#19. Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.
Channing Tatum
#20. I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.
Channing Tatum
#21. Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.
Channing Tatum
#22. I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
Tatum O'Neal
#23. When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal
#24. I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal
#25. I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Tatum O'Neal
#28. 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.
Tatum O'Neal
#29. Tatum O'Shea, there is a very distinct possibility that I have been in love with you since the first time I saw you.
Stylo Fantome
#31. Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
Tatum O'Neal
#32. I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
Tatum O'Neal
#33. If we could choose who we love, our love lives would be much simpler. We could avoid heart ache and heart break. But is that what we want or what we need? As individuals we grow and learn by our mistakes, and some of the biggest mistakes in life revolve around the heart
Tatum Wells
#34. As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
Tatum O'Neal
#35. How do I look?" she asked.
"Absolutely stunning.
Stylo Fantome
#36. I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
Tatum O'Neal
#37. You have ruined me, Tatum O'Shea," he told her. "Completely wrecked me.
Stylo Fantome
#38. I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal
#39. If necessary, he would probably kill for Jameson Kane.
If asked, he would probably die for Tatum O'Shea.
Stylo Fantome
#40. Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
Tatum O'Neal
#41. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal
#42. I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
Tatum O'Neal
#43. I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself.
Channing Tatum
#44. I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.
Jack Tatum
#45. I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
Channing Tatum
#46. I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.
Channing Tatum
#47. I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.
Channing Tatum
#48. If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
Channing Tatum
#49. I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.
Channing Tatum
#50. All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.
Channing Tatum
#51. It always felt like I had to be a realist.
Jack Tatum
#52. Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
Buddy DeFranco
#53. I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
Channing Tatum
#54. That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.
Channing Tatum
#55. I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
Tatum O'Neal
#56. I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.
Channing Tatum
#57. I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.
Channing Tatum
#58. I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
Channing Tatum
#59. There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
Channing Tatum
#60. I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
Channing Tatum
#61. As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
Edward Lawrie Tatum
#62. It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you ... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
Channing Tatum
#63. I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.
Channing Tatum
#64. Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.
Terry Teachout
#65. I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.
Channing Tatum
#66. Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
Channing Tatum
#67. Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
Channing Tatum
#68. Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Eddie Heywood
#69. I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.
Channing Tatum
#70. It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.
Beverly Daniel Tatum
#71. I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.
Channing Tatum
#72. Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.
Channing Tatum
#73. Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
Tatum O'Neal
#74. I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
Channing Tatum
#76. I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.
Jack Tatum
#77. I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.
Channing Tatum
#79. Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet
off the ground.
Woody Hayes
#80. I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.
Channing Tatum
#81. My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Tatum O'Neal
#82. I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.
Channing Tatum
#83. If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.
Jack Tatum
#84. I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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