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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
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Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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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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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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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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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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There's not a lot of money in revenge.
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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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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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