Mandy Patinkin Quotes

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Voila, we're all molded by our personal paths, which forge our sensibilities.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

We're all reflections of the lives we lead.

I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.