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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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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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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 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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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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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If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
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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 wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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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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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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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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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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This is unbearable how I talk.
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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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