Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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Mandy Patinkin

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 30, 1952

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.

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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

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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.

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

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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

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

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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

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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.

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

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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.

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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. 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 would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

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