Quotes by Patty Duke

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

“I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.”

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

“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 c...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.”

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

“I always felt pressure as a child to perform, but again that came from the people who were managing my career. There was no such thing as halfway, I had to do it to the hilt.”

“I’ve had trouble sleeping for a good part of my life, And what I would always do is start at the very beginning of ‘The Miracle Worker’ and say all of the lines, all the way through.”

“You know sometimes when you act, you work through some things as if you would in a therapy session.”

“Whatever this thing is that takes over you, that says that you are worthless, that really the only answer is to kill yourself, is so much more powerful that that's... the calling you relate to.”

“That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. But then, things often don’t turn out the way you plan.”

“All that hitting out and pulling and tugging every performance for two years was probably a kind of therapy for me, a release. Otherwise, who knows what would have happened to me if I adjust had to...”

“I wrote the book not to have a catharsis, because I was under the impression that I already have had many catharses as one could have.”

“There was so much suffering, She really, really suffered in a way that — we were desperate to help relieve her suffering, and so it's just a blessing that she's not suffering anymore.”

“I think maybe the most important part of her legacy is her acting. Above and beyond anything, the reason any of the other stuff is possible in terms of the scope of the impact that she was able to ...”

“She’s much more together and mature. She’s raised two kids and five stepchildren, and she’s a grandmother. I can’t get over that.”