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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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Film Actor
Musician
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Vienna
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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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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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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
Theodore Bikel
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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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.
Theodore Bikel
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 a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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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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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
Theodore Bikel
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.
Theodore Bikel
Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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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?
Theodore Bikel
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.'
Theodore Bikel
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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