Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (/pəˈtɪŋkɪn/; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer.
There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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.
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.
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world.
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 247 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
There's not a lot of money in revenge.
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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.
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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.
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.
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.