Mandy Patinkin famous quotes

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Believe #Writing #Light

Comparison leads to violence.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Violence #Comparison

Everything I experience influences everything I do.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Experience #Influence

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Beautiful #Men #Singing

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

#People

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

#Ideas #Next #Surprise

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Musical #World #Theater

Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
-- Mandy Patinkin

#America #Guy

Our actions are the ground we walk on.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Our Actions #Action #Walks

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

#Games #Balls #Hunger

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Trying #Privilege #Lucky

I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Grateful #Play #Luck

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

#Thinking #Forever #Ends

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

#Acting #Calm

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Driven

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Special #Actors

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Alive

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Intensity #Obsessive #Persons

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Song #Two #Scripts

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

#Concerts

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#People #Want #Directors

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Ideas #Theatre #Dropping

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#School #Boys #House

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Girl #Blessed #Eye

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Board Of Directors #Middle East #Boards

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Prayer #Names #People

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

#Gun #Issues #Organization

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

#Singing #World #Feels

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

#Song #People #Want

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Jesus #Kings #Believe

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Missing #Want #Today

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

#Achieve

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

#Blessed #Careers #Ungrateful

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

#Musical #Needs #Language

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

#Grateful #Critics #Wells

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

#Dream

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

#Feelings #Married #Wanted

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

#New York #Drama #School

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

#Trying #Lucky #Human Condition

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#People #Violence #Problem

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

#Art #College #Liberal Arts

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

#Character #Thinking #Intense

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

#War #Talking #Weapons

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Spiritual #America #Influence

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

#Mom #Bakers #My Mom

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

#Struggle #Easy

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

#Actors #Singers

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

#War #Middle East #Sides

The great love of my life is music.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Love Of My Life #Great Love #Life Is

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Air #Water #Alive

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

#Who I Am #Parent #Credit

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

#Beats #Crap

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Color #Details #Painting

When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Appreciate #Age #Stuff

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

#Believe #Arguing

This is unbearable how I talk.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Unbearable

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Experience

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

#Given #Homeland #Bases

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

#Singing #Thrill #Theater

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Wine #Hands #Wife

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Simple #Best Work

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.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Cds #People #Come Up

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

#Motivation #Thinking #Guy

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

#Real #Believe #Tv Shows

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#People #Trying #Quality

There's not a lot of money in revenge.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Money #Revenge

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Pay #Ibsen

My life exists in an imagined reality.
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Reality

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Evil #Vehicle