176 Quotes by 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.

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.'

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

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.

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

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.

I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

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.