Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
