Top 57 Quotes by Patty Duke

Nobody gets through life on a pass.

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

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

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

I worshipped my father.

I was a very isolated teenager.

Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

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'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.

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.