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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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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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'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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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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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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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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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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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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