"Back Stage: 'Many artists don't read an audience as well as you do'
Patinkin: 'If you don't, you're such an egomaniac that you think you're so gifted and brilliant no matter what, and you're not paying attention. I'm not interested in those people. You can always feel a performer who's just only listening to themselves. The thing is I've always loved about this genre of music is it's so lyric-driven... I realize I'm with the audience, listening to these words with them. That we listen together, that I'm not alone. And it's a great comfort to me knowing that I'm not the only one affected by what these people wrote, that other people like hearing it too'
Patinkin: "I feel his raison d'etre is his untiring journey to turn darkness into light. That is exactly what I strive to do every second of my life, an nobody writes it better than [Sondheim] does'
Patinkin: On Juilliard Professor, Gerald Freedman, "Gerry taught me the core element of my craft, which was to understand what an action was, how to define it, how to simplify it, how to make it connect to my soul, my experience, and be able to repeat it when I need to, Then there was Marian Seldes... And when the shit hit the fan, as it always would and did, she was there to hold you and help you remind yourself that you came here because you love this'
Patinkin: "But the real thing that always stops me in my tracks and wakes me up out of my day and makes me leave the planet that I'm on and do into their world is when somebody allows me into their genuine soul'
Patinkin: "We came here because of the deep conscious and unconscious desire to share something in our souls about the human condition that we want to try and get across before we check out... And I think for me that's the goal: to be able to somehow synthesize whatever I've picked up in life that's worth sharing and through my craft find a way to, un obtrusively, deliver the mail."
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