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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
Mandy Patinkin
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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
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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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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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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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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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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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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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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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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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 wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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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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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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Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
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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 moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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This is unbearable how I talk.
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