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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.
Mandy Patinkin
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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Chicago
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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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 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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This is unbearable how I talk.
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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 moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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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 got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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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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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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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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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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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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