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
attach helps work
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
face hear life wipe work
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.
cast great stage whether work
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.
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.
eight later next richest theatrical third until weeks
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.
life
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
guess life
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
breath culture fascinated guides history influences informs people
I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
concert favorite singing stage
Singing on the concert stage is the freest form, my favorite thing in the world,
I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
along came musical somebody
If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
center life music
Music is my balance... center of my life.
isaac israel peace safer
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.