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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.
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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Musician
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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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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'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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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 created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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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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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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 always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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