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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.
Mandy Patinkin
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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy 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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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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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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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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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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