Mandy Patinkin

“I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.”

“I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.”

“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.”

“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 dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.”

“My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.”

“I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.”

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

“Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.”

“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 was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. 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.”

“If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'”

“The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.”

“On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.”

“As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.”

“I'm in a constant state of gratitude.”

“The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.”

“In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.”

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

“I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.”