Patty Duke
Patty Duke
Patty Dukewas an American actress of stage, film, and television. She first became known as a teen star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, a role which she had originated on Broadway. The following year she was given her own show, The Patty Duke Show, in which she played "identical cousins". She later progressed to more mature roles such as that of Neely O'Hara in...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 December 1946
CityNew York City, NY
age young young-age
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me
panic-attacks panic stills
The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death
remember i-can
I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself
moving mental-illness rough-times
I was just sort of moving through time.
kind imagine scene
When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
funny-things manic colorful
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.
imagination my-imagination has-beens
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination
bipolar weight disease
Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.
friday monday morning
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
children school kids
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.
lonely sunset ideas
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.
talking doctors risk
The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say
book thinking self
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
appealed created great lived nursing strife
This one appealed to me, ... My mom, before she passed, lived in a nursing home. It created great strife and guilt.