Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I love London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris - there are a million places I could imagine I like, but N.Y. is home.

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

You go to school in New York because you want New York and the life that comes with it.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.