Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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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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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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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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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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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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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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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 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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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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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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.