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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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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 an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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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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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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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.
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I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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Comparison leads to violence.
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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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Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
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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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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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