Best 60 quotes of Mandy Patinkin on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

Comparison leads to violence.

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.

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

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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.

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

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.

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

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

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

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

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

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.

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.

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

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

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.

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.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

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

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

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.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

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.

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

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.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.