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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.

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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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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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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 try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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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 would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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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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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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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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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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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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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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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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