Mandy Patinkin Quotes (24 Quotes)

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

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 plan on doing at least one classic ever year. That's why I'm going to be doing Enemy of the People this summer in Williamstown.

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

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.

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

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

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

Singing on the concert stage is the freest form, my favorite thing in the world,

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.

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.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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

And all of those things my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel - that influences everything I do.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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.

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

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

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

I struggle, to be perfectly honest.

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.

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