Patty Duke

“I met my husband while I was making a movie.”

“I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.”

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

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

“I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.”

“I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.”

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

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

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

“My life was ripped off!”

“Nobody gets through life on a pass.”

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

“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 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 worshipped my father.”

“I was a very isolated teenager.”

“Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.”

“My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.”

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

“I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.”