Mandy Patinkin
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Mandy Patinkin is a celebrated actor known for his impactful performances and deep commitment to social causes. This interview reveals his leadership style as one that sparks change and encourages others to engage with pressing societal issues.
“And we can get very heavy and very serious, and Catherine is incredibly knowledgeable and very political, and certainly the teacher in our family. But Gideon has adopted, you know, we're all entertainers at the end of the day.”
“Yeah. Remind me if I get lost, but I just remembered something I was saying earlier when my dad got hurt. He would sit with his head in his hands and he would say to me, I don't know how you learned those lines. How do you learn those lines? Well, he had a brain injury, you know, and that's what happened when he was.”
“Was in the hospital for something, and we were little, and he was taking us over to have lunch. He said, we're going to tell mom we had lunch. I said, but daddy, we didn't have lunch. He said, I know, I know, I know, but mom will worry if I didn't give you lunch. So it's called a white lie. I said, what? He said, it's a white lie.”
“I guess the key lesson of life for me that my teacher taught me, which is if, and this is universal all over the world, if we were taught from the time we could walk to be uncomfortable, to be with what makes us tolerate a major part of life, at least half of life, which is discomfort.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 416 — Mandy Patinkin
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