Mandy Patinkin quotes

If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table. (Mandy Patinkin)
Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am. View quote
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. View quote
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on. View quote
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me. View quote
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad. View quote
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called "My Lady" and that's all I'll say. View quote
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It's pretty early out here in L. A., but I can guarantee it will happen today, I sure am lucky. It's better than NOT having it. View quote
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Everything I experience influences everything I do. View quote
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can. View quote
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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. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have. View quote
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. View quote
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I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies. View quote
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. View quote
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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. (Mandy Patinkin)
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life. View quote
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience. View quote
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky. View quote
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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. View quote
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