Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkinis an American actor, tenor, voice artist, and comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth30 November 1952
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
frightened
I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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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.
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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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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
musical
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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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.
reality
My life exists in an imagined reality.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.