Top 57 Quotes by Patty Duke

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.

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

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.

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

I'm spoiled rotten, as my children would tell you.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.