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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
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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Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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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 don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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There's not a lot of money in revenge.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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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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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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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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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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