American - Actor | November 30, 1952 -
I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.
Mandy Patinkin
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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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.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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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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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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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 you're sick, watch funny movies.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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