Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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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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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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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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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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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
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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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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.