Quotes from Mandy Patinkin

I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

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

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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

As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

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.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

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'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.