Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.