Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

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.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

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.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?

Comparison leads to violence.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

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.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

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.

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.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

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

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

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.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

The great love of my life is music.

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.