Mandy Patinkin Quotes
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Quotes to Explore
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.
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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
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To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense 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.
