Mandy Patinkin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

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.'

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

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

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.

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

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.