Ryan O'Neal Professions : Television actor Born : April 20, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Ryan O'Neal I am flippant. That's one of my charms. Ryan O'Neal flippant charm Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. Ryan O'Neal flames ghost beautiful I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young. Ryan O'Neal wife party house I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew. Ryan O'Neal moody complexes I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me — Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick. Ryan O'Neal daddy daughter beautiful We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year. Ryan O'Neal kissing gone years Darkness exists to make light truly count. Ryan O'Neal light darkness I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Ryan O'Neal think know hopeless father I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21. Ryan O'Neal child born mature real I'm not religious. I'm a fallen Catholic. Ryan O'Neal fallen catholic religious Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. Ryan O'Neal emotional writing sometimes book Similar Authors Burt Ward television-actor Bryce Pinkham television-actor Brandon Jay McLaren television-actor Ato Essandoh television-actor Antony Starr television-actor Andrew Buchan television-actor All Authors