Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

About Mandy Patinkin:

Mandel Bruce is an American actor, tenor, voice artist, and comedian.
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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 don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

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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 Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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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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My life exists in an imagined reality.

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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or...

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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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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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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 opini...

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I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameMandy Patinkin
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and tenor singer
  • BornNovember 30, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Director