Top 33 Patty Duke Quotes

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o’clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

I was a very isolated teenager.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I’m living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

The panic attacks – I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I’m stunned.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

I worshipped my father.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I’m going to be 58, and I’m a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

I’m not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

I’m surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

My life was ripped off!

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

When we want to say something negative to somebody we say, ‘Aww, you’re so crazy.’

I’ve gotten to the age where I’m comfortable with just about everything – except getting old!

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women’s rights activities is one I treasure.

If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it’s called ‘colorful,’ as opposed to, ‘Well, maybe there’s a problem there.’

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What’s missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

I’ve survived. I’ve beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

I met my husband while I was making a movie.

I can’t even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.