Patty Duke Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

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• 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.

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• When I don’t know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don’t usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

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• When I’m 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I’m going to feel old or forget my younger days.

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Patty Duke (35)

Birth:	14th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Patty Duke is an American actress of stage, film and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 and later starring in her eponymous sitcom, The Patty Duke Show, for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely O'Hara in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls. She was later elected president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985-1988, succeeding her Patty Duke Show co-star William Schallert.

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