Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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

Comparison leads to violence.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

This is unbearable how I talk.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

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.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

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.

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.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My life exists in an imagined reality.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

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.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

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.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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

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.