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.
people
I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
audience both equally good leave listen opportunity present sides
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
classic enemy people plan summer
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.
advance change halfway mind politics quite shakespeare singing songs stuff throw until
I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
musical
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
chancellor courses dropping good kept loved time
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.
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.
reality
My life exists in an imagined reality.
actors singers
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
mom bakers my-mom
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
struggle easy
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
people directors chicago
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.