Mandy Patinkin

“My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is wa...”

“I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I...”

“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.”

“I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.”

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

“There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 als...”

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

“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.'”

“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.”

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

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

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

“We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.”

“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.”

“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”

“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.”