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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
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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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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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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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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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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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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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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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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 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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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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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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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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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