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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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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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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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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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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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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 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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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 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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Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
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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 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 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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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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If you're sick, watch funny movies.
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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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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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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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