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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
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Singer
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Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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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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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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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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