Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (/pəˈtɪŋkɪn/; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer.
I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.
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.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
The great love of my life is music.
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.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.
I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn.
My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
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.