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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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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
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Film Actor
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Singer
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Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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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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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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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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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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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
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