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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
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Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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