Mandy Patinkin Quotations

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.'

My life exists in an imagined reality.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

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

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

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

This is unbearable how I talk.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.