Mandy Patinkin

“I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.”

“I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.”

“Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.”

“My life exists in an imagined reality.”

“The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.”

“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.”

“The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.”

“Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.”

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

“I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.”

“We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.”

“Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.”

“It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.”

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

“I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.”

“In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.”

“It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.”

“Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.”

“If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.”

“The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.”