Patty Duke Quotes

We all go a little mad sometimes.

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

I think everybody's nuts.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

Be prepared for mood swings.