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Mandy Patinkin
November 30, 1952 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

   

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

   

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.

   

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

   

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

   

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.

   

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

   

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.

   

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

   

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.

   

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

   

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.

   

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

   

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.

   

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've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

   

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

   

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

   

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

   

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

   

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