Mandy Patinkin Net Worth

Mandy Patinkin's Quotes

• Everything I experience influences everything I do.
• I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
• I'm just an actor. I am nothing special. An actor is only as good as what they have on the page in front of them, and anyone who tells you differently is full of shit.
• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do Criminal Minds (2005) in the first place.
• [on quitting Criminal Minds (2005)] It wasn't the right fit. I made a choice I didn't want to make. I pushed myself, thinking I needed more fame, more economic security. One of the greatest gifts that Homeland (2011) has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis. I'm always with the script, walking around with this stuff 24/7, so my head's in a good place. The role is about listening, and when you don't listen to yourself, you get in trouble. I wasn't listening to myself in Heartburn (1986) [from which he was fired]. I listened to [my agent and] the culture at large saying, 'You've got to be in a movie, this is going to make you,' and it wasn't who I was. Yes, I did Yentl (1983) and Dick Tracy (1990), but I felt, and I still feel a little bit today that I'm really not successful, because I didn't become a movie star. The irony is half of those movie stars are all trying to be in television shows like this.

Interesting Facts about Mandy Patinkin

1. Attended and graduated from Kenwood High School in Chicago, Illinois (1970).
2. Acted in very first commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats; commercial filmed in Chicago's Loop.
3. Had left cornea replaced due to degenerative eye disease (keratoconus). [November 1998]
4. Had his right cornea replaced due to degenerative eye disease. [May 1997]
5. Father of Isaac Patinkin (born 1983) and Gideon Grody-Patinkin (born 1987).
6. Occasional appearances on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) on CBS-TV. His most memorable performances were with Tony Randall, who accompanied him pretending to have had a taxi breakdown and therefore needing an emergency rehearsal hall. Mandy then brings down the house with Al Jolson standards "Swanee", "Mammy", etc.
7. Was not asked to reprise his Tony Award-winning role of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in the movie version of Evita (1996).
8. Attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas for two years before being discovered.
9. Mandy does concerts for the gun control advocacy group Pax and for Doctors Without Borders, a group that provides medical relief in violence-torn areas such as Darfur, Lebanon, and many other developing countries.
10. Mandy's mother is Doralee Patinkin Rubin, a cookbook author, who is to have her own cooking show on the Food Network.
11. Portrayed a spirit from the 1950s in his first television commercial for 7-Up (1970). Also played the lead role in the very first television commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats.
12. Won Broadway's 1980 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for playing Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Broadway's "Evita". He was also nominated twice as Best Actor (Musical): in 1984 for Broadway's "Sunday in the Park with George", a role he recreated on television American Playhouse: Sunday in the Park with George (1986), and in 2000 for Broadway's "The Wild Party".
13. Says that, of all the roles he has played in his career, Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride (1987) is his absolute favorite.
14. He is a lover/collector of Lionel model trains and he continues to enjoy playing with them to this day. He considers the concept of hanging on to such "classic" influential toys from the past very important to pass down to future generations.
15. Did an interview for a 1987 The Princess Bride (1987) featurette pretending to have worse English than the character he was playing (a Spaniard). In reality, he's American, born and bred.
16. He released a CD entitled "Kidults" featuring children's songs among others (2000).
17. Before he and Adam Arkin starred as doctors on the television show, Chicago Hope (1994), they both played doctors in the movie, The Doctor (1991).
18. Began singing in the temple choir at age 9.
19. Briefly studied acting at New York's Juilliard School of Drama, but dropped out to pursue work.
20. His father, Lester Patinkin, operated two large metal factories, the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America, before he passed away from cancer.