Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

I was a late bloomer.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I'm such a late bloomer.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.