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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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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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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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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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Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
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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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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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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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