Mandy Patinkin Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

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.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

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.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

Comparison leads to violence.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it.

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.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.