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
jesus kings believe
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.
singing world feels
There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
people violence problem
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
beats crap
No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
evil vehicle
Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
singing thrill theater
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
driven
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
cds people come-up
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
ideas theatre dropping
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.
middle-east directors boards
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.
prayer names people
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.
brief bring illuminate mission moment opposed struggles thoughts
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
biggest chose public
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
constantly forgive heard judgment mother qualities strength wonderful
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.