Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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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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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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Music is my balance... center of my 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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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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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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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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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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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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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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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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The great love of my life is music.