Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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

Mandy Patinkin

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• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Serious
  • Most
  • Iran

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Fate
  • Fools
  • Sign

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Good
  • Government

• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Between

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Thought

• 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.'

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• 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.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Eye

• I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

  

  Rain
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Concentrate

• I always take part in the creative process of every film of mine. Gone are the days where an actor would walk into the sets, finish his portions, take the money, and leave. In fact, I've been accused of being interfering - but that's the way I am. It is important for every actor to get involved with the script.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Actor

• Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.

  

  Erin Karpluk
  • Actor
  • Motion
  • Jumping

• Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Blue
  • Said
  • Nobody

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

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings