109 Quotes by Patty Duke

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone’s words and breathe life into them.

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

We call that Sean’s little independent movie.

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.

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone’s happily ever after.

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.