Quotes from Patty Duke

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

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

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

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

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.

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'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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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