Mandy patinkin quotes

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.

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

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

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.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

Comparison leads to violence.

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

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

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

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

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

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.

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

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

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

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

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

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.

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

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.

There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it.

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.

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.

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.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My life exists in an imagined reality.

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

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.

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

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

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

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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.

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.

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

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

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 Martin Luther King or Jesus.

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

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

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

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.

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

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

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

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

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

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

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.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

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.

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

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

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

This is unbearable how I talk.

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.

The great love of my life is music.

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

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.