American - Actor | November 30, 1952 -
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
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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.
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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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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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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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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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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.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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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.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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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.
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