Quotes from Mandy Patinkin

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.

The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

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

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

I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

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.

I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.