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Mandy Patinkin
American
Actor
About the author
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Now
#Peace
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Shakespeare
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.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Quality
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Life
#Open
#Night
#Running
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.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Work
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#World
#Shakespeare
#Theater
My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Now
#Dream
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,
American
Actor
#Time
#Thought
#Idea
#Theatre
I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Life
#Career
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Public
#Safety
#Health
#Awareness
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Influence
#America
#Spiritual
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Experience
#College
#Liberal
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#World
#Privilege
I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
#Work
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
#Song
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Life
#Words
#Saying
Everything I experience influences everything I do.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#Experience
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
Mandy Patinkin,
American
Actor
#World
#Peace
#Israel
#Justice