176 Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

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.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

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.

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

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

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

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.