Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Mandy Patinkin

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television and film. He is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received three Tony Award nominations, winning for his leading role in Evita (1980), and seven Drama Desk Award nominations. For his work in television he has received seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He has also received a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations.

American - Actor | Born: November 30, 1952

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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.

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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

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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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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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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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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

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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.

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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

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

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

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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.

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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.

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

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

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

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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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

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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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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

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

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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

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

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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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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 just an actor. I am nothing special.

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

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

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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

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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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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'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.

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The great love of my life is music.

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