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There's not a lot of money in revenge.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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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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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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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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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 have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from I enjoy the surprise of it all.
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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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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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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 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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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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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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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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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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