Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

As a person, I am still grounded and humble.

I try and live my life simply and purely.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

It's nice to have it recognised that I'm doing well and to have people saying good things about me, but I try not to take too much interest. I just try to focus on my own game and what I need to do to improve.

I am someone without an ego.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.