Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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 wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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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'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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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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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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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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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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 moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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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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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
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I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
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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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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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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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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.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.