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
acting playing-someone calm
Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
trying lucky world
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.
america guy bad-guys
Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
girl blessed eye
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.
thinking forever ends
I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.
our-actions action walks
Our actions are the ground we walk on.
musical world theater
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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.
games balls hunger
It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger...
people i-can do-the-best
I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
experience influence
Everything I experience influences everything I do.
believe writing light
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.
books everywhere influences travel
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.
I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!