Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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Mandy Patinkin

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 30, 1952

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

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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.

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If you're sick, watch funny movies.

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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.'

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

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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

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

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