Mandy Patinkin quotes

Mandy Patinkin is an American actor and singer, widely recognized for his work on stage and screen. Known for his roles in "The Princess Bride" and the TV series "Homeland," his distinctive voice and presence have made him a beloved performer. He continues to earn acclaim for both his dramatic and musical talents. Here are 58 of his quotes:

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

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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called "My Lady" and that's all I'll say.

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It's pretty early out here in L. A., but I can guarantee it will happen today, I sure am lucky. It's better than NOT having it.

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Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

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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.

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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.

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

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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

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I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.

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

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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.

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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

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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.

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