Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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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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The great love of my life is music.
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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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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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It's pretty early out here in L.A., but I can guarantee it will happen today, I sure am lucky. It's better than NOT having it.
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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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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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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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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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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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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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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'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
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I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.