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. – Mandy Patinkin
I’ve been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
I’m active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. – Mandy Patinkin
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys’ choir. We didn’t listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir. – Mandy Patinkin
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine. – Mandy Patinkin
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
Peace in the Middle East isn’t going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
I’m an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts. – Mandy Patinkin
I don’t want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. – Mandy Patinkin
I’m not frightened about terrorism. I’m frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism. – Mandy Patinkin
I think it’s fair to say I’m attracted to playing characters who are rather intense. – Mandy Patinkin
I’m a Jew. I’m fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I’d just be a vacuum. – Mandy Patinkin
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. – Mandy Patinkin
One of the greatest gifts that ‘Homeland’ has given me is it’s affirming on a daily basis. – Mandy Patinkin
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it’s on a TV show or in the real world. – Mandy Patinkin