Patty Duke Quotes

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

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

Family, Life, Husband

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.
Patty Duke

Mind, Around, Until

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.
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Morning, Real, Night

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

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
Patty Duke

Life, Time, Someone

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
Patty Duke

Time, Alone, Lonely

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
Patty Duke

Remember, Times, Tried

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
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Rock, Single, Tell

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
Patty Duke

Age, Young, Wrong

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.
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Person, Control, Missing

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.
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Business, Woman, Seems

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.
Patty Duke

Sure, Cleared, Neuroses

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

Help, Others, Patient

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
Patty Duke

Best, Yourself, Others

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.
Patty Duke

Good, Matter, Luck

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

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
Patty Duke

Life, Important, Illness

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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Together, Miracle, Worked

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
Patty Duke

Life, Die, Afraid

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?
Patty Duke

Time, Two, Start

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
Patty Duke

Funny, Nature, Around

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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Mother, Position, Savior

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.
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Small, Living, Used

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
Patty Duke

Future, End, Start

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Nationality: American

Born: December 14, 1946

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