I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. Mandy Patinkin More Quotes by Mandy Patinkin More Quotes From Mandy Patinkin Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. Mandy Patinkin thrill singing theater Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. Mandy Patinkin east violent-acts war 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 married wanted feelings I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people. Mandy Patinkin violence problem people I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it. Mandy Patinkin missing want today I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky. Mandy Patinkin human-condition lucky trying I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience. Mandy Patinkin college wanted art 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 influence spiritual america I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. Mandy Patinkin issues gun organization I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world. Mandy Patinkin humanity opportunity believe There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it. Mandy Patinkin real war country Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth. Mandy Patinkin mother father son Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world. Mandy Patinkin comedy morning world I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all. Mandy Patinkin next surprise ideas I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever. Mandy Patinkin ends forever thinking Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm. Mandy Patinkin calm playing-someone acting I'm so sad that I'm old enough to play, and I'm so grateful that I am. All that clichéd things, you really do learn something if you get the luck of being able to hang around. Even if it's a rough ride, you learn. Mandy Patinkin grateful luck play I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written. Mandy Patinkin singing beautiful men 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? Mandy Patinkin freedom chance justice people Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end. Mandy Patinkin face pain violence suffering
