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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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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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'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
