Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining 1980. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".
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For people who seriously want to get into voiceover acting, clearly the most important thing is that you must be a good actor. That comes first. That's why celebrities get so much work in voiceovers - we've seen their work, we know they're good actors.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
