American - Actor | November 30, 1952 -
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
Mandy Patinkin
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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.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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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.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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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.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. 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 would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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