Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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My life exists in an imagined reality.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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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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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
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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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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
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I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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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I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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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 believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.
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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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This is unbearable how I talk.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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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 desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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