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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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
Sondheim
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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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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 don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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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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