Quotes by Mandy Patinkin - Page 3

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Burden
Human Condition
Sensitive
Condition
Suffer
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Countrymen
Fabric
Great Community World
Fellow
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Forgive Me
Judgment
Please
Forgive
Qualities
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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 / Actor
Courses
Dropping
Ideas
Theatre
Time Good Doing
Awhile
Chancellor
Good Idea
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Both Sides
Sides
Equally
Make Up
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Chance
Breathe
Country
Dignity
Doors
Seeking
Freedom Justice People
Asylum
Close
Refugees
Saying
The Doors
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Fascinated
Guides
Breath
Influences
Just Be
Vacuum
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Art
Teacher
Class
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Men
Great Men
Great Women
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Detection
Love Men Women
All Women
Cure
Dre
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Girl
Blessed
Donate
Eye
Organs
Sight
Year-Old
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Age
Appreciate
Stuff
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Possibility
Brief
Brief Moment
Illuminate
Mission
Shakespeare
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Boys
Chicago
Choir
House
School
Synagogue
African
Gospel
Joined
Mostly
South Side
Temple
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Wonderful Life
Life World People
Wanna
Cultural
Life World Living
Reflect
Regional
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Grateful
Luck
Play
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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 / Actor
Lucky
Trying
World
Check
Work Better Always
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Halfway
Yiddish
Advance
Shakespeare
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Attention
Done
People
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Opportunity
Believe
Humanity
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Collaborators
Homeland
Work Great Myself
Great Fun
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Morning
Comedy
World
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Revenge
Vicious
Acts
Cycle
Situations
Untold
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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 / Actor
Combination
Hebrew
Names
People
Prayer
Sondheim
Me Day People
Passed
Pocket
Prayers
Shakespeare
Written Down
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Cancer
Caught
Detection
Frightening
Prostate
Begun
Cured
Fruitful
Hardly
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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 / Actor
Art
Hurt
Suicide
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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 / Actor
Eight
Every Night
Just One
Theatrical
Two Weeks
Experiences
Richest
Third
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Directors
People
Want
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Chicago
Gifted
Spoiled
Hope Me People
Hope Your Me
Behaved
James
Unbelievably
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Jesus
Kings
Believe
Bobby Kennedy
Breathing
Dies
Luther
Moses
Muhammad
Possibility
Relativity
God Religion Believe
Bobby
Einstein
Exists
Martin
Martin Luther King
Roosevelt
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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
American Life
International
Office
Refugee
Rescue
Share
United States
Life Dreams Family
Assist
Close
Committee
Hopes
Invite
Meal
Newly
Welcoming
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Father
Mother
Son
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Over It
Wipe
Life Work Myself
Agreed
Annihilate
Forced
Relatives
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My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Blessed
Extraordinary
Life Work Believe
Area
Life Work Wife
Different Areas
Dreamed
Extraordinary People
Incredible
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Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Cruz
Incidents
Phrases
Brings
Citizen
Ted
Uses
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
Appreciation
Brilliant
Company
Form
Genius
Gifted
Hamilton
Human Beings
Overwhelmed
Possibility
Beings
Seat
Itself
Public
Deeply
Watch
Executed
Reinvented
Saw
Piece
Wept
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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.
Mandy Patinkin / Actor
War
Country
Real
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