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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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'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 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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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 am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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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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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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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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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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