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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
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
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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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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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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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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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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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 universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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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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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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