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
unbearable
This is unbearable how I talk.
experience entitled
Everyone's entitled to their own experience.
school boys house
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.
middle-east directors boards
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.
money revenge princess-bride
There's not a lot of money in revenge.
people trying quality
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.
ideas theatre dropping
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.
pay ibsen
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
suicide art hurt
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.
prayer names people
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.
simple best-work can-do
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.
cds people come-up
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.
gun organization issues
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
song two scripts
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.