Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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 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.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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.

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 don`t want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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

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

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

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.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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.

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

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