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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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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
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Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, Attention must be paid. It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.
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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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from I enjoy the surprise of it all.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.
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I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
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This is unbearable how I talk.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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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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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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