Mandy Patinkin really wants Ted Cruz to stop quoting 'The Princess Bride'

Maeve McDermott | USATODAY

Unless you're a big Ted Cruz fan, you may have missed that the Republican presidential is a big fan of The Princess Bride.

Big fan.

Like, can't-stop-quoting-it big:

Not as big a fan of Cruz's fandom, though, is Mandy Patinkin, who played Inigo Montoya (he killed your father, prepare to die, etc) in the iconic 1987 movie.

In a new interview with the New York Times, Patinkin described his confusion when friends emailed him memes mashing up Cruz and his character. “They Photoshopped his face right over my face! I said, ‘How can I stop this?’”

As Patinkin learned the hard way, the internet is an unstoppable force, and he kept getting sent videos of Cruz reciting lines from the movie at campaign stops.

And he has a message for the senator:

“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote my favorite line?”

It's a line that comes at the very end of the movie: "I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life."

Here's Patinkin explaining the line in an interview:

And to Patinkin, it echoes a sentiment that he wishes Cruz took more seriously. "This man is not putting forth ideas that are at the heart of what that movie is all about," he said. "I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love."

We're guessing these two guys won't see eye-to-eye on political issues anytime soon. And in the meantime, there's not much Patinkin can do to keep Cruz away from his #1 movie.