Quotes About Patty Duke

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

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

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

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.

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

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