All that hitting out and pulling and tugging every performance for two — Patty Duke

"You know sometimes when you act, you work through some things as if you would in a therapy session."

"I always felt pressure as a child to perform, but again that came from the people who were managing my career. There was no such thing as halfway, I had to do it to the hilt."

"Whatever this thing is that takes over you, that says that you are worthless, that really the only answer is to kill yourself, is so much more powerful that thats... the calling you relate to."

"I’ve had trouble sleeping for a good part of my life, And what I would always do is start at the very beginning of ‘The Miracle Worker’ and say all of the lines, all the way through."

"That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. But then, things often don’t turn out the way you plan."

"I wrote the book not to have a catharsis, because I was under the impression that I already have had many catharses as one could have."