Mandy Patinkin Quotes

17 quotations by Mandy Patinkin

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

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.

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

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.

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.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

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

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

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

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.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

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

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.

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.