Quotes from Mandy Patinkin

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.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

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

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

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

Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

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

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

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

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.

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

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

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

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.

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

If you're sick, watch funny movies.