Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.