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.

- Mandy Patinkin

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.

- Mandy Patinkin

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.

- Mandy Patinkin

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

- Mandy Patinkin

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.

- Mandy Patinkin

I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

- Mandy Patinkin

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

- Mandy Patinkin

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

- Mandy Patinkin

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.

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

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

- Mandy Patinkin

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

- Mandy Patinkin

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

- Mandy Patinkin