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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.
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
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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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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'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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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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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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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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
Theodore Bikel
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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 do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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Audiences are audiences.
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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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