Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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Mandy Patinkin

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 30, 1952

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

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

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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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

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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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

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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

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

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