Patinkin And Patinkin Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mandy Patinkin

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all. — Mandy Patinkin

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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

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

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

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive! — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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

Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations. — Bill Hader

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

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

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds. — Mandy Patinkin

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here. — Mandy Patinkin

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. — Mandy Patinkin

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

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. — Mandy Patinkin