Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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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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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The great love of my life is music.