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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
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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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 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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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 always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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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 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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Audiences are audiences.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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