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

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

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

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

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

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

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

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