Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

I'm just a working actor.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.