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“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Believe #Writing #Light
“Comparison leads to violence.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Violence #Comparison
“Everything I experience influences everything I do.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Experience #Influence
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Beautiful #Men #Singing
“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#People
“I HAVE NO IDEA WHATS COMING NEXT OR WHERE IT WILL COME FROM; I ENJOY THE SURPRISE OF IT ALL.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Ideas #Next #Surprise
“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Musical #World #Theater
“Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#America #Guy
“Our actions are the ground we walk on.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Our Actions #Action #Walks
“It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger...”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Games #Balls #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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Trying #Privilege #Lucky
“I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichÃ©d 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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Grateful #Play #Luck
“I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Thinking #Forever #Ends
“Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Acting #Calm
“I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Driven
“I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Special #Actors
“I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Alive
“I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Intensity #Obsessive #Persons
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Song #Two #Scripts
“If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Concerts
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#People #Want #Directors
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Ideas #Theatre #Dropping
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#School #Boys #House
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Girl #Blessed #Eye
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Board Of Directors #Middle East #Boards
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Prayer #Names #People
“I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Gun #Issues #Organization
“There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Singing #World #Feels
“I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Song #People #Want
“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.”
-- Mandy Patinkin

#Jesus #Kings #Believe

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