Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

The great love of my life is music.

I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

This is unbearable how I talk.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Comparison leads to violence.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS COMING NEXT OR WHERE IT WILL COME FROM; I ENJOY THE SURPRISE OF IT ALL.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger ...

Music is my balance ... center of my life.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I FEEL THE MOST ALIVE WHEN I'M SINGING. I ALSO GET TO BE THE MAIL MAN FOR SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LYRICS EVER WRITTEN.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.