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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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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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 filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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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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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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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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It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
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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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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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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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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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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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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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